10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORLD FAIR»
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World Fair in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
World Fair and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
" The Los Angeles Times The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through ...
2
The Chicago
World's
Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record, ...
Offers text and 128 rare, vintage photographs of two hundred buildings and includes coverage of the original ferris wheel, the first midway, and Edison’s kinetoscope.
3
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris
World's
Fair
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, thereby revealing the ...
4
The Devil In The White City
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer.
5
The 1939-1940 New York
World's
Fair
After enduring 10 harrowing years of the Great Depression, visitors to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair found welcome relief in the fair's optimistic presentation of the "World of Tomorrow.
6
The 1933 Chicago
World's
Fair: A Century of Progress
The author offers the stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the Great Depression, in an engaging history of the 1933 Chicago world's fair that also features ...
7
The New York
World's
Fair, 1939/1940 in 155 Photographs
Photographic tour of best-loved world's fair: the 700-foot-tall Trylon, the 200-foot-wide Perisphere, GM's Futurama ride, 3-D movies, Elektronbsp;thenbsp;7 feet tall robot, artwork by Salvador Dali, Rockwell Kent, Alexander Calder, much ...
Richard Wurts, Stanley Appelbaum, 1977
8
Seattle's 1962
World's
Fair
They invited the whole world to visit for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, and more than nine million people took them up on the offer.
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Chicago's 1893
World's
Fair
Unfortunately, by 1896, most of the fair's buildings had been removed or destroyed, but this collection takes readers on a tour of the grounds as they looked in 1893.
Joseph M. Di Cola, David Stone, 2012
10
Exploring the Chicago
World's
Fair, 1893
The World's Fair in 1893 Chicago and its wonders dazzle and frighten Dora Pomeroy as her family works and she takes care of her sisters, but circumstances affecting her family change her perspective of life at the turn of the century.
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORLD FAIR»
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Ritchie Will Work On World Fair Bid
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie says he'll work on the campaign to bring the World Fair to Minnesota when he leaves office. «CBS Local, Aug 14»
