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"This is our fair and our state": African Americans and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.: An article from: California History by Lynn M. Hudson, 2010-06-22
Adventures in Art and Northwest Art Today (Seattle World's Fair) by Gervais Reed, Millard B. Rogers, 1962
LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION: An entry from Charles Scribner's Sons' <i>Dictionary of American History</i> by William B. Faherty, 2003
The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940 by Matthew F. Bokovoy, 2005-11-01
St. Louis: The 1904 World's Fair (Images of America: Missouri) by Joe Sonderman And Mike Truax, 2008-11-21
Fair Women: THE STORY OF THE WOMAN'S BUILDING AT THE by Jeanne Madeline Weimann, 2005-08-30
Fair Laughs the Morn: A Historical Romance of the Anza Exposition to California 1775-76 by Genevieve Gray, 1994-07-01
Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair by Lisa D. Schrenk, 2007-06-19
The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress by Cheryl R. Ganz, 2008-09-24
"Indescribably Grand": Diaries and Letters from the 1904 World's Fair
The Summer of Dreams: The Story of a World's Fair Girl (Her Story) by Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler, 1993-05

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The State Fair Of Louisiana - About Us
history. is proud to hold memberships in the following related organizations InternationalAssociation of fairs and expositions, american Livestock Show
http://www.statefairoflouisiana.com/history.html

Extractions: Founded by a group of Shreveports leading citizens in 1906, the State Fair of Louisiana will celebrate 100 years in 2006. The founders primary interests were to provide an institution to assist in developing the agricultural and industrial resources of the area and for the betterment of the citizens. The State Fair of Louisiana, though it is located in Shreveport, and is the official Fair for the State of Louisiana, has no formal ties to either the City or State. It is a private, not-for-profit membership organization whose members represent a broad cross-section of Louisiana citizens, who have exhibited interest in the goals and objectives of the Fair. The Fair is governed by a Board of Directors, elected from the membership. Fair operations are directed by the President and General Manager, assisted by a full-time staff; as well as hundreds of volunteers. Although it is one of the states largest single attractions and the State Fair of Louisiana's largest fundraiser, staging the annual exposition is but one of the many activities held on the Fairgrounds. The Fairgrounds facilities, including the 10,300 seat Hirsch Memorial Coliseum, are used weekly for a multitude of off-season functions, such as musical concerts, hockey games and other ice events, sporting events, livestock shows, rodeos and motor coach rallies.
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AMUSEMENT PARKS A Guide to North american fairs National Fairground history of FairgroundRides World s fairs and International expositions, 18761916 The
http://www.teacheroz.com/sports.htm
Virtual Museums And Virtual Representations Of 'Real' Museum Exhibits
World s fairs expositions The World s Columbian sites pertaining to the World sColumbian Exposition. Smithsonian Museum of american history Edison After
http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/amssources/resources.html

Extractions: Home Syllabus Assignments Tools ... Readings RESOURCES THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION The World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath Julie K. Rose http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html The World's Columbian Exposition Chicago Historical Society http://www.chicagohs.org/history/expo.html http://www.boondocksnet.com/expos/columbian.html Links to many sites pertaining to the World's Columbian Exposition Smithsonian Museum of American History: "Edison After Forty" http://americanhistory.si.edu/edison/index.htm American Memory Project, Library of Congress: Inventing Entertainment, The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html History Matters: Making Sense of Documents http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/ An excellent guide on making sense of and analyzing oral history, films, photographs, maps, music, political cartoons, and letters. AN ESSAY ON EVALUATING INTERNET SOURCES (Additional evaluative essays and tools are accessible via the Tools Page, at the heading "Guides to Citing and Evaluating Sources.") "Evaluating Internet Research Sources" http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
Book Review The Journal Of American History, 87.1 The
it is often funny and critical of such american icons as attractions, and historicalrecreations, but festivals, expositions, and world s fairs are also
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/87.1/br_150.html

Extractions: Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History. Instititutions can: Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues. Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. By Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 326 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-520-20467-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-520-20966-4.)
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Made Visible american World s fairs and expositions World s fairs and Internationalexpositions. YMCAYWCA. World Alliance of YMCAs history history (18441998
http://www.dentonisd.org/rhs/Gen_Info/zeigerl1900s.htm
All The Worlds A Fair: Visions Of Empire At American International Expositions,
a Fair Visions of Empire at american International expositions, 18761916 studyThis book is an extensive study of american Worlds fairs from 1876 to
http://www.history-us.com/All_the_Worlds_a_Fair_Visions_of_Empire_at_American_In

Extractions: Robert W. Rydells book, All the Worlds a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916 is far different a study than Roy Rosenzweigs, yet it offers some interesting insights into how the moneyed leisure class still indulged in luxuries of their own. Rydell writes that the impetus behind worlds fairs was to boost the economy while maintaining an American authority over the displays. Just as saloons and amusement parks were necessary for Americas working class, the Worlds Fairs were designed for the leisure class.
[World_fairs] WORLD'S FAIRS INTERNET RESOURCES
attractive web pages on american World s fairs and expositions are Centennial SmithsonianInstitution s larger exhibit on american history entitled Bright
http://mailman.depaul.edu/pipermail/world_fairs/2004-April/000005.html

Extractions: Wed Apr 14 18:28:24 CDT 2004 WORLD'S FAIRS INTERNET RESOURCES There are many web pages dedicated to American World's Fairs. They include virtual tours, academic papers, memorabilia collectors, and dealers in books and collectables. Several view books and other primary documents on the Fairs have also been digitized in their entirety. Among the many attractive web pages on American World's Fairs and Expositions are: Centennial 1876 [ http://www.150.si.edu/chap4/four.htm] The site is a part of the Smithsonian Institution's larger exhibit on American history entitled Bright Lights, Bold Adventures: 1846-1878. World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath [ http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/wce/title.html] A self-titled "hypertextual thesis" on the Fair. A Souvenir of the Pan-American Exposition [ http://intotem.buffnet.net/bhw/panamex/Welcome.html]
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URL http//www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/; African Americans at World s fairs and expositions Site Info - Translate - Open New Window Information
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ReferenceWorks
J. Gorn Peter Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of american Social history D. Pelle,eds., Historical Dictionary of World s fairs and expositions, 18511988
http://astro.temple.edu/~wcutler/H686/ReferenceWorks.htm

Extractions: Selected Reference Works in American History I. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Historiographical Works Altenbaugh, Richard J., ed., Historical Dictionary of American Education Encyclopedia of American Social History , 2 vols. (1993) Eisenmann, Linda, ed., Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988 Growing Up in America: Children in Historical Perspective Robert J. Janosik, ed., Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements ,3 vols. ( 1988) Patricia Mooney Melvin, American Community Organizations: An Historical Dictionary American Reform and Reformers: A Biographical Dictionary James S. Olson, ed. Dictionary of the Vietnam War Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups Walter H. Trattner, Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America II. Bibliographies, Guides, and other Reference Works Gywn M. Baylis, ed. Bibliographic Guide to the Two World Wars Multiculturalism in the United States: A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity Cities and Towns in American History: A Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations compiled by Arthur P. Young (1989)
University At Buffalo Pan-American Exposition Centennial
of 1851world s fairs and international expositions have generated a the Edward J.Orth World s Fair Collections at the National Museum of american history.
http://ubpanam.buffalo.edu/latestlecture.html

Extractions: Saturday, September 8 "The Enigmatic Assassin: Anarchist Leon Czolgosz," Daniel A. Coleman Co-sponsored by the Polish Collection, UB Libraries Daniel A Coleman's novel, The Anarchist explores the life, motivations, political views, and psychology of anarchist Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley. Join him as he explores one of the least understood yet compellingly important characters in the long sweep of US and Buffalo history. Coleman will read from his novel, discuss his research, and answer questions about the event that in September, 1901, placed Buffalo at the center of world attention. Daniel A. Coleman, a long-time political columnist and activist, is the author of Ecopolitics: Building A Green Society (Rutgers University Press, 1994). Tuesday, September 11
National History Day 2003
World s A Fair Visions of Empire at american International expositions, 18761916. Zwick,Jim, ed. World s fairs expositions Defining America
http://nationalhistoryday.org/03_educators/2003curbook/16-worldpower/worldpower.

Extractions: One of the greatest of the World's Fairs of the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries was held in St. Louis in 1904. The Fair's organizers intended the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, as it was also called, to be educational. David Francis, president of the Fair, noted, "So thoroughly does it represent the world's civilization that if all man's other works were by some unspeakable catastrophe, blotted out, the records here established by the assembled nations would offer all necessary standards for the rebuilding of our entire civilization." Taking place just six years after the US acquired a colonial empire at the end of the Spanish-American War, the Fair's centerpiece was the Philippine Reservation, visited by nearly all of the 19 million people who attended the Fair. Philippine Scouts (NARA) The US government sponsored the Reservation in hopes of justifying its decision to keep the Philippines in a colonial relationship. Government officials wanted to show that, unlike other colonial powers, the US was not exploiting its colonies but rather selflessly bringing civilization and progress to them. By showing that the Filipinos were not yet ready for independence but would make rapid progress under American rule, the government hoped to quiet the many critics of US imperialism.
Select Vita
of 1 881. In John E. Findling (ed.), Historical Dictionary of World s fairs expositions. Regional and National Perspectives on american Urban history
http://www.utc.edu/Academic/History/russvita.html
A General History Of British Menagerist Frank Bostock And His Part In The 1901 P
was an experienced entertainer at fairs and expositions. Carolina Interstate and WestIndian Exposition, at Charleston. clippings of the Pan american at Buffalo
http://www.thegalloper.com/menageries/0404bostockatbuffalo.html

Extractions: In 1901 the Bostock-Ferari Midway Carnival Company presented a huge wild animal show, plus other attractions, at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York. DAVE PAGE waded through the huge amount of information available on this event and got to the heart of what Frank Bostock was really doing in America. Until the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, or to use its correct title "World's Columbian Exposition", the term "Midway" was unheard of, but this event was the key that opened the door to the business of amusing large numbers of people for profit in the United States. After Chicago Expositions became all the rage and spawned a new type of showman - the concessionaire. Running these shows almost became a profession in its own right and they were staged so frequently during this period that some concessionaires had almost continuous employment for their entire careers. Expositions were gigantic lavish events all about trends, developments, innovations and attitudes. They needed huge temporary cities to accommodate them that took years to plan and build and months to remove afterwards. The 1901 Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York, was just such an event. Its huge colourful buildings along its own grand canal were offset by lakes with their electric fountains, triumphal bridges, open spaces and bandstands. Meanwhile, an "Electric Tower" announced America's technical superiority - and there were buildings dedicated to agriculture, machinery, transport, manufacturing, art and music.
References & History
A brief biographical sketch of several key figures in African american history. Africanamericans at World s fairs and expositions, Votes 0 Rating Not Rated.
http://www.forfamilieslikeus.com/cgi-bin/directory/tseekdir.cgi?location=Root-Re
U.S. History Internet Resources, History Dept., University Of Minnesota, The 188
Progress Made Visible american World s fairs and expositions, Special Collections Turner, The Frontier in american history, american Studies, University
http://www.hist.umn.edu/~hist20c/internet/1880_90s.htm

Extractions: RETURN TO: U.S. History Internet Resources Homepage History Courses Lee 3822 Welke 1302 Welke 3821 ... "Today in History," Library of Congress USEFUL WEBSITES WEBSITES ORGANIZED CHRONOLOGICALLY WEBSITES ORGANIZED TOPICALLY Site maintained by U.S. History Internet Resources Adminstrator History Department and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
Clements Library Collections
library includes Africanamerican history (especially the antislavery movement);american Revolution; Cookery; Crime; Education; fairs and expositions; history of
http://www.clements.umich.edu/Collections.html

Extractions: The Clements Library collects primary source materials in all formats relating to the history of America prior to the mid-twentieth century. The holdings are particularly strong in the intellectual, cultural, and military history of the late colonial period, the Early Republic, and the 19th century, but are very broad and richly interconnected. A very partial list of the collecting interests of the library includes: Printed books, broadsides, pamphlets, and periodicals are searchable in MIRLYN , the on-line catalog of the University of Michigan. Collection descriptions for most of the catalogued and many of the "uncatalogued" manuscript collections are posted on the pages for the Manuscript Division Summary information on the holdings of the other Divisions ( Maps Music Photographs Prints , and the Longone Culinary Archive ) is listed on the pages for those divisions, but for all divisions, specific inquiries are best directed to the Curators.
Reader's Companion To American History - -WORLD'S FAIRS
Significance of the Frontier in american history to a the 1893 Chicago World s ColumbianExposition and Booker T fairs, moreover, played a critical role in the
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_093900_worldsfairs.htm

Extractions: Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History American international expositions, like their counterparts in other countries, trace their origins to London's 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition, the first world's fair. And like it, America's expositions drew on and reshaped an earlier tradition of agricultural and mechanical fairs. Equally important to the promotion of a vision of American progress were displays of nonwhite people, frequently arranged by anthropologists from the Smithsonian Institution and universities. These so-called living ethnological exhibits of Africans, Asians, and American Indians, often arranged along exposition midways, introduced millions of Americans to Darwinian ideas about racial advance and lent legitimacy to the imperial ambitions of exposition organizers. St. Louis fair authorities, for instance, organized twelve hundred Filipinos into a "Philippines Reservation" that was intended to promote American colonial policies in that nation. Set against the backdrop of temporary but palatial "white cities" constructed on the main exposition grounds, these exhibits underscored the racist nature of turn-of-the-century American society. When the First World War caused many Americans to call into question the ideas of progress and of science and technology acting as guarantors of the nation's future, industrialists and scientists launched a cultural offensive with a new generation of world's fairs. Just as the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition was faltering owing to the failure of many exhibitors to have their displays ready for opening day, business leaders in Chicago decided to organize a fair to commemorate the centennial birth of their city and turned to the National Research Council for scientific expertise in formulating a philosophy for their exposition.
Filipinos At World's Fairs And International Expositions
Document displays of Filipinos at World's fairs held in the United States (18981916), their influence in shaping american racial attitudes, and both Filipino and anti-imperialist opposition to the displays.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/expos/wfe_filipinos.html
American Culture Studies Web Sites - Bowling Green State University
on America s Western Frontier The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson The Pill Progress MadeVisible american World s fairs and expositions The Promise of
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/infosrv/lue/amcultst/acsweb.htm
World's Fairs And International Expositions
Resources on the world's fairs held from 1876 to 1916 focusing on how they shaped american culture by presenting idealized visions of the past and future that often ignored minority viewpoints.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/expos/

Extractions: Centennial Exposition International Cotton Exposition Exposition Universelle Internationale Jamaica Exposition ... Panama California Exposition W orld's fairs and expositions held in the United States and abroad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries celebrated the past while introducing visions of the future. Both the past and the future were highly idealized, almost utopian. The World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 presented what Catholic World proclaimed was a "city of realized dreams." Discussing the same exposition, Frederick Douglass stated that "the spirit of American caste made itself conspicuously felt against the educated American negro, and to this extent, the Exposition was made simply an American Exposition and that in one of America's most illiberal features." Conflicts over representation at the fairs whose dreams were realized were common but changes were made slowly if at all in an era when Jim Crow segregation laws were being established throughout the South, women did not have the right to vote, and the American empire was extended from the Caribbean to Asia. Displays of Filipinos as "primitive peoples" were among the most popular attractions at later fairs. During Philippine Day activities at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, Philippine Resident Commissioner Manuel L. Quezon referred to the lasting effect of those displays: "I have traveled to every part of the United States and I have been saddened to learn how many misapprehensions exist here as to the real conditions in the Philippine Islands; due, probably as much as anything else, to the exhibition of the native Igorote village at the St. Louis Exposition ten years ago."

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