World's Fair Notes
Author | : Marian Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Marian Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1892* |
Genre | : Exhibitions |
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Author | : Grace Humphrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : World's Columbian Exposition |
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Author | : Joseph Tirella |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2013-12-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 149300333X |
Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "Master Builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65 World' s Fair was a Sixties flashpoint in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's La Pieta from Europe; and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA—from undersea and outerspace colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol (until Governor Rockefeller had it removed); and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the Fair—and its house band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians—sat in the musical shadows of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock-and-roll right there in Queens. And as Southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and violent protests also occurred in and around the Fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World's Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures, nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent, Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964-65 Fair was truly exceptional.
Author | : Robert W. Rydell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226923258 |
Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.
Author | : Reid Neilson |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2011-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195384032 |
Reid L. Neilson provides the first examination of Latter-day Saint participation in the 1893 Columbian Exposition, which was a watershed moment in the Mormon migration to the American mainstream and its leadership's discovery of public relations efforts, and marked the dramatic reengagement of the LDS Church with the outside, non-Mormon world after decades of isolation in America's Great Basin desert.
Author | : Russell Lewis |
Publisher | : Turner |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9781596525696 |
Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World's Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacular world's fair ever built. The Columbian Exposition opened on May 1, 1893, and more than 21,000,000 people visited the fair during the six months it was open to the public. The White City was a seminal event in America's history that changed the way the world viewed Chicago. Fortunately, the fair was documented in stunning photographs by commercial and amateur photographers. This volume tells the story of the fair from its construction in Jackson Park to its destruction by fire after the fair had closed. Photographs of the exhibition halls, state buildings, foreign buildings, indoor and outdoor exhibits, the attractions of the Midway, and the various ways to move about the fairgrounds give a sense of how visitors experienced this extraordinary time and place.
Author | : Robert W. Rydell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total 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.
Author | : John Langdon Kaine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : World's Columbian Exposition |
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Author | : Joe Sonderman |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738561097 |
Contains captioned, archival photographs that trace the history of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, from the groundbreaking to the closing ceremonies.