World fair

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair) was the event of the century.

A century ago, touring the Paris world's fair, Henry Adams was extraordinarily prescient in predicting our current debate about ethics and technology.

in 1964, new york hosted the world’s fair – an event that served as a showcase for mid-century american culture and technology.

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Say “World’s Fair” and many think of grand culture shows that happened once in a great while, at some time in the past. However, these celebrations of...

THE CITY OF WONDERS A SOUVENIR OF THE WORLD'S FAIR by Mary Catherine Crowley (1894)

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair) was the event of the century.

Structural pageantry and beauty are the architectural motifs of the spectacular Fair buildings that blend and vitalize America's prehistoric races... Aztec, Mayan, Incan... with Oriental lands of mystery... Cambodia, India, Cathay. A magic walled city of the pacific, the Fair will thrill the multitudes with mystic forms, giant pyramids, long pavilions of light and shadow, Towering skyward, the Exposition's Spire to the Sun translates mass into height, matches the breathless loom of the Bay…

Let’s climb aboard the Alweg Monorail in Downtown Seattle and take a trip back to the 1962 World’s Fair: Man in the Space Age. The Century 21 Exposition brought the first World’s Fair in North America since 1940 and the...

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