World’s fair, large international exhibition of a wide variety of industrial, scientific, and cultural items displayed at a specific site for a period of time, ranging usually from three to six months. Since the mid-19th century more than 100 world’s f
The fair was built in League Island Park (now Roosevelt Park) and the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a flat and uninspiring tract of land. They failed to take advantage of the nearby Delaware River, choosing to construct mostly inland buildings (some were around a constructed lake) with a pastel st...
World’s Columbian Exposition, fair held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. The chief planner was the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham. The classical facades of the fair’s ‘
- Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the world’s first telephone in 1876 at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine. - The Japan World Exposition Osaka 1970 gave visitors the first opportunity to discover the connectivity mobile-phone technology...
. From 1851 through 1970 a total of 39 universal world’s fairs were organized: in New York (1853, 1939), Paris (1855, 1867, 1878, 1889, 1890, 1900, 1937), London (1862, 1886, 1908), Vienna (1873), Philadelphia (1876, 1926), Sydney (1879), Melbourne (1880), Chicago (1893, ...
This is a bronze 3″ award medal from the World Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition held in New Orleans in 1884-5. Minted by P.L. Krider in Philadelphia. 1884 Bronze Award MedalNew Orleans Cotton Centennial Reads “Awarded by The World’s Industrial And Cotton Centennial Exposition” ...
A. Drew,Glimpses and Gatherings, during a Voyage and Visit to London and the GreatExhibition, in the Summer of 1851, Augusta & Boston: Homan & Manley, Abel Tompkins, 1852,p. 336.2These numbers refer to the total number of visits. As it was common to visit a huge fair overmore than ...
Explore the beautifully designed award medals, official medals, souvenir medals, badges, pins, tokens, and prize medals from expositions and world fairs.
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I have been a huge fan of Roxy Paine’s and have seen many of his sculptures throughout the US, including Dendroids in Philadelphia. It is time San Francisco has a representation of his work. Paine is a contemporary American artist best known for his tree-like structures he calls Dendroid...