Remembering the Chicago World's Fair

Remembering the Chicago World's Fair
Title Remembering the Chicago World's Fair PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Turner
Pages 134
Release 2011-11
Genre History
ISBN 9781683368908

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With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book, Historic Photos of the Chicago World's Fair, Russell Lewis provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the Chicago World's Fair. 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 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. 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




The Chicago World's Fair of 1893

The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
Title The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 PDF eBook
Author Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 136
Release 2012-08-29
Genre History
ISBN 0486130630

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128 rare, vintage photographs: 200 buildings — 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states — the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index.




The 1933 Chicago World's Fair

The 1933 Chicago World's Fair
Title The 1933 Chicago World's Fair PDF eBook
Author Cheryl Ganz
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 270
Release 2012-01-06
Genre History
ISBN 0252078527

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Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair reflected a business-military-engineering model that envisioned a promising future through science and technology's application to everyday life. But not everyone at Chicago's 1933 exposition had abandoned notions of progress that entailed social justice and equality, recognition of ethnicity and gender, and personal freedom and expression. The fair's motto, "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms," was challenged by iconoclasts such as Sally Rand, whose provocative fan dance became a persistent symbol of the fair, as well as a handful of other exceptional individuals, including African Americans, ethnic populations and foreign nationals, groups of working women, and even well-heeled socialites. Cheryl R. Ganz offers the stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the depths of the Great Depression. This engaging history also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other it




Exploring the Chicago World's Fair, 1893

Exploring the Chicago World's Fair, 1893
Title Exploring the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 PDF eBook
Author Laurie Lawlor
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 244
Release 2002-05
Genre Families
ISBN 074343630X

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Dora and her three sisters are fascinated by the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.




World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Title World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 PDF eBook
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Release 1883
Genre Toy and movable books
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Spectacle in the White City

Spectacle in the White City
Title Spectacle in the White City PDF eBook
Author Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 178
Release 2009-01-01
Genre Photography
ISBN 1606600060

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A splendid tribute to The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, this hardcover volume offers a grand photographic record, printed in a sweeping landscape format. Includes essays and captions by a noted historian. 128 photographs.




Whose Fair?

Whose Fair?
Title Whose Fair? PDF eBook
Author James Gilbert
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 234
Release 2009-12-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0226293122

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The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair was a major event in early-twentieth-century America. Attracting millions of tourists, it exemplified the Victorian predilection for public spectacle. The Fair has long served as a touchstone for historians interested in American culture prior to World War I and has endured in the memories of generations of St. Louis residents and visitors. In Whose Fair? James Gilbert asks: what can we learn about the lived experience of fairgoers when we compare historical accounts, individual and collective memories, and artifacts from the event? Exploring these differing, at times competing, versions of history and memory prompts Gilbert to dig through a rich trove of archival material. He examines the papers of David Francis, the Fair’s president and subsequent chief archivist; guidebooks and other official publications; the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis; diaries, oral histories, and other personal accounts; and a collection of striking photographs. From this dazzling array of sources, Gilbert paints a lively picture of how fairgoers spent their time, while also probing the ways history and memory can complement each other.