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04/12
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13:37:191939 World's Fair 38479 Pavilions of different countries 13:41:03 People in line for Perisphere Gardens on parade
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Topic: world's fair
David Rumsey Map Collection
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Apr 1, 2022
04/22
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Dolph Map Corporation; New York Worlds Fair 1939, Inc.; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11879.002 is a part of image group 11879.000 . 2 maps on 1 sheet, both sides,56x44, folded to 9.5x22. In the front : Map of New York World’s Fair, 1939, showing railways, subway lines, the joint IRT and BMT Queens service, elevated lines, roads, railroads, city blocks, streets names, parks, rivers and points of interest. On verso: General plan of New York World's Fair, shows the exposition grounds, with index. Includes...
Topics: World's Fair, Transportation
Source: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~306129~90076521
David Rumsey Map Collection
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Apr 1, 2022
04/22
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Dolph Map Corporation; New York Worlds Fair 1939, Inc.; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11879.001 is a part of image group 11879.000 . 2 maps on 1 sheet, both sides,56x44, folded to 9.5x22. In the front : Map of New York World’s Fair, 1939, showing railways, subway lines, the joint IRT and BMT Queens service, elevated lines, roads, railroads, city blocks, streets names, parks, rivers and points of interest. On verso: General plan of New York World's Fair, shows the exposition grounds, with index. Includes...
Topics: World's Fair, Transportation
Source: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~306128~90076520
All rights are reserved by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or email photos@pennmuseum.org. This film and all of the films in the Penn Museum collection are copyrighted by the Penn Museum, and are not in the public domain.
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Topics: World's Fair 1939, Synchronized swimming, San Francisco World's Fair, New York World's Fair, United...
The Newberry Library hosts a conversation about Chicago tourism during the 1893 World's Fair. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Topics: tourism, Chicago World's Fair
Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10955.003 is a part of image group 10955.000 . The Paris Colonial Exhibition (or "Exposition coloniale internationale", International Colonial Exhibition) was a six-month colonial exhibition held in Paris, France, in 1931 that attempted to display the diverse cultures and immense resources of France's colonial possessions. The exposition opened on 6 May 1931 in the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern outskirts of...
Topics: Pictorial map, World's Fair
Source: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~340031~90108193
(From 1898 or not long afterwards.)
Topics: typewriter, remington, world’s fair
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Dec 5, 2014
12/14
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Associated Film Consultants
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Silent A/B roll of duPont film about fiberglas.
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Topics: fiberglas, 1964 World's Fair
Public Resource's Internet Events
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Sep 19, 2018
09/18
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Carl Malamud; His Holiness, The Dalai Lama (foreword); Laurie Anderson (afterword)
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Topics: Internet, World's Fair, Books
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[Home Movies: Levy collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40]
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Topics: home movie, World's Fair
Art exhibit at 1964 New York World's Fair
Topics: world's fair, vintage, people, art, new york, New York World's Fair
Huang family home movie. Santa’s Village, Capitola Beach, 1964 New York World Fair, Washington, D.C., 1967 New York, 1967 Montreal World's Fair.
Topics: Home Movies, Santa's Village, Capitola Beach, 1964 New York World's Fair, New York, 1967 Montreal...
Magazine Contribution Inbox
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Jul 31, 2018
07/18
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George Sterling; Francis Joseph Bruguière; Will Sparks; Frederic W. Goudy
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The Evanescent City by George Sterling With Nine Illustrations after Photographs by Francis Bruguière and A Cover in Color after the Painting by Will Sparks copyright 1915 This poem, commemorative of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition First appeared in Sunset Magazine. font set Frederic W. Goudy's Kennerley Italic Illustrations: Altar: Palace of Fine Arts Arch of the East Palace of Horticulture Water Spirit by Leo Lentelli Colonnade: Court of the Universe Doorway: Palace of...
Topics: evanescent, panama pacific, world's fair
1964 New York World's Fair
Topics: world's fair, vintage, people, vintage fashion, new york, New York World's Fair, flag
LibriVox recording of Against Odds by Lawrence L. Lynch. Read in English by Lynne Thompson Believed to have been written by Chicago socialite, Emma Murdock Van Deventer, this detective story set at the World's Fair follows Carl Masters as he is in pursuit of international criminals Greenback Bob and Delbras. Conmen, lost handbags, jewel robberies, an adventuress... not to mention two missing young men and a murder, all come under the detective's eye. ( Lynne Thompson) For further information,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Detective, world's fair
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Then-CBS (now NBC) affiliate WBIR-TV's recap of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN. Commercials were included. Posted for educational and historical purposes only. All material is under the copyright of their original holders. No copyright infringement is intended.
Topics: Knoxville 1982 World's Fair, Tennessee
1964 New York World's Fair at nighttime
Topics: lights, night, vintage, world's fair, fair, new york, nighttime, New York World's Fair
Historian Sally Kalmbach discusses how women played an integral leadership role in creating the World’s Fair and cultivating Chicago’s successful future. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Topics: Sally Kalmbach, women, World's Fair
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Topics: BELGIUM, 3/ ATTRACTION, world's fair
People at World's Fair, Seattle, Washington, 1962
Topics: vintage fashion, Century 21 Exposition, Seattle World's Fair, vintage, world's fair, people,...
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Jun 15, 2011
06/11
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Beller, Miles
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Topics: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.), New York World's Fair
Winston Churchill/Pavilion at 1964 New York World's Fair
Topics: Winston Churchill Tribute, winston churchill, World's Fair Building, world's fair, vintage, new...
Winston Churchill Tribute at 1964 New York World's Fair
Topics: Winston Churchill Tribute, winston churchill, World's Fair Building, world's fair, vintage, new...
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Aug 14, 2008
08/08
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Freedom 75
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...a collection of material concerning transportation issues for the proposed World's Fair (1976) to be held on Boston's waterfront and the harbor islands; deals mainly with Columbia Point and Thompson Island; this item was in the BRA collection..
Topics: Bicentennial Celebration -- Massachusetts Boston Proposals, Columbia Point, Boston (Mass.) --...
Source: bplgovdocs
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A recap of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN from then-NBC affiliate WTVK (now CBS affiliate WVLT). Posted for educational and historical purposes only. All material is under the copyright of their original holders. No copyright infringement is intended.
Topics: Knoxville World's Fair, 1982, WTVK, Tennessee
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08/08
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Freedom 75
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...consists of cost estimates and engineering data needed to prepare the various sites of the proposed World's Fair (1976) to be held on Boston's waterfront and harbor islands; this item was in the BRA collection..
Topics: Bicentennial Celebration -- Massachusetts Boston Proposals, Columbia Point, Boston (Mass.) --...
Source: bplgovdocs
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Sep 8, 2010
09/10
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Wurts, Richard; Appelbaum, Stanley
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Includes index
Topic: New York. World's Fair, 1939-1940
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Nov 15, 2012
11/12
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Gelernter, David Hillel
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Includes index
Topic: New York World's Fair (1939-1940)
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May 9, 2008
05/08
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Holley, Marietta, 1836-1926
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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: World's Fair of 1982 (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=UUEjAAAAMAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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Dec 1, 2017
12/17
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Raymond Keith Lindie
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Video footage of the New York World's Fair and Hell Drivers in 1965. Item Label Text: 1965 N.Y. Worlds Fair & Hells Driver's Item does not contain audio. Footage copyright by Keith Lindie and this item is part of the Keith Lindie Archive. All rights reserved.
Topics: New York World's Fair, Stunt driving
This was recorded by Rev. Timothy Shum at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. They were short messages to his family, and recorded on a 78 rpm record medium that wasn't meant to last as long as commercially pressed records at the time. The recording was digitized to CD, then mp3, in 2006.
Topics: Timothy Shum, Chicago World's Fair, 1933
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The 1939–40 New York World's Fair was held in Queens, New York, at a site near today’s LaGuardia Airport and the CitiField baseball stadium . The area is generally known as Flushing Meadows and Corona Park. More than 44 million people visited over the two years. It was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at "the world of tomorrow." Because international travel was...
Topics: old time radio, 1939 world's fair
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Jun 15, 2010
06/10
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Time, inc; Wood, Norton, ed
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118 p. 31 cm
Topic: New York World's Fair (1964-1965)
Unisphere at 1964 New York World's Fair at night
Topics: world's fair, vintage, new york, Unisphere, New York World's Fair, Gilmore D. Clarke, fountains,...
Unidentified 8mm orphan home movie purchased at flea market. Circa 1965 Label on can: Cats Kuntstown Watkins Glen Niagara Kremkau's Pop's Funeral World's Fair [1964-1965 New York World's Fair] Bonnies Beach Prom Time Patio/Family Phila. Wildwood Swim Meet Sam/Navy
Topics: Home movies, Niagara Falls, World's Fair
Cover title
Topics: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.), New York World's Fair, Exhibition catalogs
International Fountain at Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair), Washington 1962
Topics: international fountain, Space Needle, Seattle, Washington, vintage, world's fair, Century 21...
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Apr 13, 2008
04/08
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Holley, Marietta, 1836-1926
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Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topic: World's Fair of 1982 (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=gLgOAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8
1964 New York World's Fair entrance #2 General Foods Arch
Topics: New York World's Fair, entrance, General Foods Arch, world's fair, vintage, people, vintage...
International Fountain at Seattle's World Fair 1962
Topics: world's fair, washington, fair, amusement ride, Century 21 Exposition, fun, vintage, Seattle...
Skyride at Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair), Washington 1962
Topics: vintage fashion, Century 21 Exposition, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, Washington, vintage, world's...
View of Seattle, Washington, during 1962 World's Fair
Topics: Century 21 Exposition, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, Washington, vintage, world's fair, aerial...
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Jan 25, 2012
01/12
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H.M. Gousha Company; Cities Service Company
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Relief shown by shading and spot heights
Topics: New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.), New York World's Fair (1964-1965), Roads
View of Seattle, Washington, during 1962 World's Fair
Topics: Century 21 Exposition, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, Washington, vintage, world's fair, aerial...
View of Seattle, Washington, during 1962 World's Fair
Topics: Century 21 Exposition, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, Washington, vintage, world's fair, aerial...
259 p. front. (fold. map) fold. tab. 22 cm
Topic: West Virginia. Board of World's fair managers
Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8890.005 is a part of image group 8890.000 . Color.
Topics: New York 1939 World's Fair, Pictorial map
Source: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~271518~90045472
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Laura Ackley discusses her book, ``San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.''
Topics: 1915 San Francisco World's Fair, Television Program
Source: Comcast Cable
Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8890.007 is a part of image group 8890.000 . Color.
Topics: New York 1939 World's Fair, Pictorial map
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