The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-15
WOMAN'S WORLD.
CHANCE FOR WOMEN ARCHITECTS
IN COTTON STATES EXPOSITION.

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The board of women managers Of the
Cotton States and International expo
sition at Atlanta has issued the follow
ing notice to women architects:
Designs will be received until Nov.
% from women architects anywhere
for the woman's building to be erected
in connection with the Cotton States and
International exposition, to be held az
Atlanta September to December, 1895.
A first and second premium Will be
awarded fer plans.
For particulars diagrams and data
apply by letter to Mrs Edward @. Pc
tiers, chairman building committee Cot
ton States and international Exposition
company, Atlanta.
The exposition which opens in Sep
TENDER, 1895, promises to become one
of the best opportunities for the display
of woman S work in all lines of intel
lectual, artistic, scientific and industri-
al progress known to this country.
The United States has appropriated
5000 900 for a government building and
viii be represented by a complete gov
eminent exhibit and assurances have
already been received from foreign pow
ers that they will participate. Many Of
the southern states viii also be repre-
sented by comprehensive displays. Pre-
vious expeditions have had incomplete
displays of woman IS work. The Worlds
fair at Chicago demonstrated to the
world the scope and value as well as
the exceeding beauty of woman's work,
and it is our desire to show at the forth
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recent years in this line.
A woman s building viii be in read
mess for large number Of exhibits, in
Guiding a library. patents, inventions
and other notable specimens Of woman s
genius and skill. The artistic work Of
women is especially desired. A sales
room Will be provided where articles
may be sold for the benefit of exhibit
ors. The board Of managers assures all
persons interested that a large, capable
and enthusiastic committee Of women
viii devote themselves to a proper plac-
ing Of these exhi bits.
All women who will interest them
selves in the coming exposition are re-
quested to open a correspondence with
the Woman's department, stating their
wishes and the class Of exhibits obtain
able in their respective sections. All
inquiries viii receive prompt replies
AS less than one year intervenes be
fore the exposition opens, it is necessary
that a thorough and systematic effort be
made to insure success.
In reference to the above the New
Y rk Sun says editOrially:
Now there is a chance for a great wo-
man architect. The building committee
of the Atlanta exposition has offered a
high premium for the best design for
an exposition edifice by a woman, com
petition open to all women everywhere.
We have no doubt there viii be thou
sands Of competitors.
Among women there have been paint
ers Of erninence, and sculptOrs of some
merit, and musicians Of high rank, and
literary artists a-plenty. but we cannot
think Of the name of any great architect
among them. In old times Phryne, a
Beotian woman, offered to rebuild the
massive walls of the magnificent city of
Thebes, but she did not need to be an
architect to do that.
We would like to see some woman,
any woman, win artistic immortality by
designing for the Atlanta exposition
masterpiece Of architecture, an edihce
worthy of yvoman's genius, that viii
bear her name through the ages and
gain the Atlanta prize. Never before
was such a chance to win an architec-
tural triumph offered to American Vgo-
men.