America At The Fair

Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738525211
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America at the Fair written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the United States was fast becoming the world's leading economy. Chicago, the host city, had grown in less than half a century from a village to the country's second-largest metropolis. During this, the Gilded Age, the world's most extensive railroad and steamship networks poured ceaselessly through Chicago, carrying the raw goods and finished products of America's great age of invention and industrial expansion. The Fair was the largest ever at the time, with 65,000 exhibitors and millions of visitors. It has been called the "Blueprint of the American Future" and marked the beginning of the national economy and consumer culture.

Author : Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343421
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.

Author : Reid Badger
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780882294483
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great American Fair written by Reid Badger and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1979 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Author : Julie A. Avery
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Fairs in America written by Julie A. Avery and published by Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Fairs in America includes thirteen historical and contemporary articles exploring agricultural fairs in America. Featured throughout the book are paintings and posters from this unique collection, created in the last decades of the 19th century for promotional posters for fairs. Historic and contemporary photographs are also prominent.

Author : Lila Perl
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Goes to the Fair written by Lila Perl and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1974 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of fairs throughout the world and in the United States and describes the major events of modern-day state and county fairs.

Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738525211
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America at the Fair written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the United States was fast becoming the world's leading economy. Chicago, the host city, had grown in less than half a century from a village to the country's second-largest metropolis. During this, the Gilded Age, the world's most extensive railroad and steamship networks poured ceaselessly through Chicago, carrying the raw goods and finished products of America's great age of invention and industrial expansion. The Fair was the largest ever at the time, with 65,000 exhibitors and millions of visitors. It has been called the "Blueprint of the American Future" and marked the beginning of the national economy and consumer culture.

Author : Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
ISBN 13 : 9781883937850
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fair American written by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth and published by Bethlehem Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre, sole survivor of an aristocratic family in the French Revolution, escapes to America aboard the Fair American with the aid of Sally, Andrew, and Andrew's father.

Author : Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226732398
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the World's a Fair written by Robert W. Rydell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.

Author : Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343421
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.

Author : Joseph M. Di Cola
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738594415
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago's 1893 World's Fair written by Joseph M. Di Cola and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What came to be known as the World s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus s 1492 landfall in the New World. Chicago beat out New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, DC, in its bid as host a coup for the Windy City. The site finally selected for the fair was Jackson Park, originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, a marshy area covered with dense, wild vegetation. Daniel H. Burnham and John W. Root were selected as chief architects, creating the famous White City. The fair featured several different thematic areas: the Great Buildings, Foreign Buildings, State Buildings, and the Midway Plaisance, a nearly mile-long area that featured exotic exhibits. The exposition also showcased the world s first Ferris Wheel and introduced fairgoers to new sensations like Cracker Jack, Pabst Beer, and ragtime music. The World s Columbian Exposition, covering 633 acres, opened on May 1, 1893. Admission prices were 50cents for adults, 25cents for children under 12 years of age, and free for children under six. 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."