Worlds fair

Postcard with a lithograph of a Ferris Wheel from Chicago's World Columbian Exposition of 1893. I bought this card when our family visited Chicago in 2018. Sent to a Postcrossing member in the United States.

A century ago, touring the Paris world's fair, Henry Adams was extraordinarily prescient in predicting our current debate about ethics and technology.

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair) was the event of the century.

Let’s climb aboard the Alweg Monorail in Downtown Seattle and take a trip back to the 1962 World’s Fair: Man in the Space Age. The Century 21 Exposition brought the first World’s Fair in North America since 1940 and the...

in 1964, new york hosted the world’s fair – an event that served as a showcase for mid-century american culture and technology.

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The New York State Pavilion, once the site of the historic 1964 World's Fair, has fallen victim to decades of neglect.

THE CITY OF WONDERS A SOUVENIR OF THE WORLD'S FAIR by Mary Catherine Crowley (1894)

The 1964 New York World's Fair was a World's Fair consisting of 650 acres of pavilions, public spaces, and international exhibits from around the world. Although not owned by Walt Disney Productions, Walt Disney himself and his team of WED Enterprises Imagineers contributed to the fair featuring new technology in the new form of animation for Audio-Animatronics. During the Fair, Walt and his team of Imagineers contributed four attractions to the fair. The fair is remembered for Walt and his…