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Introduction | Chronological list by decades | Alphabetical list by city | Fairs never held by date | Fairs never held by city | 1851 - 1903 World's Fairs Database | List of photographs | List of postcards | Information For Dealers And Individuals Offering Materials For Sale | Bibliographies | Other Libraries/Collections | Links


General
U.S.
General
          Snyder, Iris R.: Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs and Expositions
          Liberty Bell Museum: World's Fair and Exposition History of the Liberty Bell
Buffalo
          Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901

Chicago

1893 World's Columbian Exposition
The World’s Columbian Exposition:  Idea, Experience, Aftermath
Julie K. Rose,  hypertext, interactive M.A. thesis, University of Virginia
1893 World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago)
Gair, Christopher: Whose America?:  White City and the Shaping of National Identity, 1883-1905 [click on Essays, then White City]
Hancock, Scott.  Web-Book World's Columbian Exposition Resources Links Page
Schulman, Bruce R.  Interactive Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition
Illinois Institute of Technology, Paul V. Galvin Library Digital History Collection: World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
Internet 1996 World Exposition: Voices from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
Rose, Julie K. City Beautiful: The 1901 Plan for Washington D.C.
 

1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition
Brooks, Monica G.:  The Good Housekeeping Stran-Steel House Chicago Worlds' Fair, 1933
Duncan, Ray.  Neonatology on the Web: Century of Progress Exposition
PBS:  American Experience | Streamliners | People & Events
People & Events: Chicago Century of Progress Exposition (World's Fair), 1933-1934
Mayton, Don M. (project director). National Automotive and Truck Museum of the United
States. 1933-1934 Chicago World’s Fair:  GM Futurliner Restoration Project
Fae, Lynne (?): A Century of Progress International Exposition Chicago 1933-34.
Internet 1996 World Exposition: Voices from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair
Kidd, Dustin: Dissemination of Order in Chicago's Century of Progress

Fae, Lynne?: Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress Exposition 1933-1934

New York

1939-1940
1939 World's Fair (New York)
Anderson, Alan.  New York World's Fair 1939-1940
Rose, Julie K.  The Iconography of Hope:  The 1939-40 New York World's Fair
New Deal Network.  New York World's Fair, 1939
Voices from the 1939 New York World's Fair
The New York Times: Looking Forward, Looking Back: 1939, Building the World of Tomorrow At the New York World's Fair.
1939 and 1940 World's Fairs

Van Dort, Paul M. 1939 New York World's Fair

Philadelphia

Free Library of Philadelphia: Centennial Exhbition Digital Collection

Omaha

Trans-Mississippi Exposition Historical Association, Inc.:  The 1898 Trans-Mississippi Int’l Exposition and Indian Congress and the 1899 Greater American Exposition

 

San Francisco
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco
The Panama Pacific International Exposition
Golden Gate International Exposition
New Deal Network.  Treasure Island, CA (Golden Gate Intl. Expo)

The 1894 San Francisco Midwinter Fair
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley: The Way California Could Be: the Panama Pacific International Exposition
Panama Pacific International Exposition 3D

Rau, Scott: The Panama Pacific International Exposition


St. Louis
Irwin, Lyndon.  Agricultural Events at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (Southwest Missouri State University)
Laupp, Terry.  Terry's 1904 World's Fair Page
Corbett, Bob.  Dogtown and the St. Louis World's Fair

France

 

U.K.

Landow, George P.  The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Overview
Greenhalgh, Michael. ArtServe, Australian National University (photographs and descriptions of objets d’art exhibited at the 1851 fair in London)
            The Great Exhibition:  By Exhibitor
            The Great Exhibition:  By Medium
            The Great Exhibition:  By Type
Nicolai, Bernd et al., Universitat Trier: Welcome to Great Exhibition of Industries of all Natios, from May 1s to October 15th 1851

New Zealand

New Zealand Minitsry for Culture and Heritage: New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, 1939-40

Belgium
1910 Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles (Xavier Languy)

Italy

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