American Studies at Eastern Connecticut State Univeristy

Originally posted as a reference to the Fall 2000 AMS 420 American Studies Seminar,
Worlds Fairs and Centennial Exhibitions

World's Fair WWW Sites

Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs and Expositons 
(From the University of Delaware Library) http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/index.htm

Liberty Bell Museum 
http://www.libertybellmuseum.com/fairs.htm

World's Fairs and Expositions (By Jim Zwick)
http://www.boondocksnet.com/expos/index.html

American Memory (From the Library of Congress)
    This is an excellent site for primary sources, but you will have to dig a bit through the
     library's vast holdings to find what you need.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

World's Fair Links (From the town of Washington, Missouri)
http://www.washingtonmo.com/Library/
   
World's Fairs Held in the US, 1853-1984 

New York Crystal Palace Exhibition (1853-1854)

Centennial International Exhibition (Philadelphia, 1876)

International Cotton Exposition (Atlanta, 1881)

World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (New Orleans, 1884-85)

World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893)

California Midwinter International Exposition (San Francisco, 1894)

Cotton States and International Exhibition (Atlanta, 1895)

Tennessee Centennial Exposition (Nashville, 1897)

Trans-Mississippi International Exposition (Omaha, 1898)

Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo, 1901)

South Carolina, Inter-State and West Indian Exposition (Charleston, 1901-02)

Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (St Louis, 1904)

Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental
     Fair (Portland, 1905)

Jamestown Tercentenary Exposition (Hampton Roads, 1907)

Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition (Seattle, 1909)

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, 1915)

Panama California Exposition (San Diego, 1915-16)

Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (Philadelphia, 1926)

Pacific Southwest Exposition (Long Beach, 1928)

A Century of Progress (Chicago, 1933-34)

California Pacific International Exposition (San Diego, 1935)

Texas Centennial Exposition (Dallas, 1936)

Great Lakes Exposition (Cleveland, 1936-37)

Century of Progress (New York, 1939-40)

Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco, 1939-40)

Century 21 Exposition (Seattle, 1962)

New York World's Fair (1964-65)

Alaska '67 (Fairbanks, 1967)

HemisFair '68 (San Antonio, 1968)

Expo '74 (Spokane, 1974)

Knoxville International Energy Exposition of 1982

Louisiana World Exposition (New Orleans, 1984)

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