The World's Fair
Title | The World's Fair PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas L. Tedrow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | 9780590226561 |
While reporting the events of the St. Louis World's Fair for her local newspaper in 1906, Laura Ingalls Wilder teams up with Alice Roosevelt to stop the inhuman Anthropological Games.
The World's Fair as Seen in One Hundred Days
Title | The World's Fair as Seen in One Hundred Days PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Davenport Northrop |
Publisher | |
Pages | 786 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | World's Columbian Exposition |
ISBN |
The World's Fair as Seen in One Hundred Days.
Title | The World's Fair as Seen in One Hundred Days. PDF eBook |
Author | Henry D. Northrop |
Publisher | |
Pages | 772 |
Release | 2019-03-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783337759339 |
World of Fairs
Title | World of Fairs PDF eBook |
Author | Robert W. Rydell |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 1993-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226732371 |
In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydell's unique cultural history—begun in his acclaimed All the World's a Fair—this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a few—particularly artists, architects, and scientists—were broadcast to millions, proclaiming the arrival of modern America—a new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality. Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and International Exposition, the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition.
Still Shining
Title | Still Shining PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Rademacher |
Publisher | Virginia Publishing |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Historic buildings |
ISBN | 1891442201 |
A description of lost building from the 1904 World's Fair. The bulk of the book is descriptions and pictures.
The World's Fair as Seen in One Hundred Days
Title | The World's Fair as Seen in One Hundred Days PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Davenport Northrop |
Publisher | |
Pages | 772 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | World's Columbian Exposition |
ISBN |
Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair
Title | Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Cotter |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2015-02-02 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1439649472 |
It took six years and cost $100 million, but on May 27, 1933, the gates swung open on the biggest birthday party the city of Chicago had ever seen. The Century of Progress Exposition, better known as the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair, commemorated the amazing progress that had been made since the founding of the city just 100 years earlier. Many of America's largest companies joined with countries from around the world to showcase their histories and advertise their newest products. The road to opening day was not an easy one, with the Great Depression making it look like the fair might never be built, but thousands of small investors stepped forward to help close the financial gap. The fair went on to an unprecedented second season, and when the gates finally closed after the last of the 39 million visitors went home, it had achieved something quite rare among world's fairs: earning a profit. This collection of rare photographs, previously unpublished, highlights the major attractions of the fair and the astonishing changes made between seasons.