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Still Shining - Discovering Lost Treasures from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Still Shining - Discovering Lost Treasures
from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair


In Still Shining!, Diane Rademacher tracks down the present history and location of the 1904 World's Fair most beloved buildings and structures. Rademacher's book contains original pictures of famous structures and how they look today.
Inside the World's Fair of 1904: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Inside the World's Fair of 1904: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Vol. 1 & 2

With historical references and over 540 pictures, this is a comprehensive view of the World's Fair of 1904. The reader will see inside each building and concession from a perspective never experienced except by those who actually attended the fair.

Legacies of the St. Louis World's Fair Legacies of the St. Louis World's Fair

This is a charming collection of articles about the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Published in conjunction with the 1904 World's Fair Society, it includes some little known facts and historic photographs.

St Louis Then and Now St. Louis: Then and Now

This book on St. Louis combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. It features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes.

Beyond the Ice Cream Cone is all about food at the 1904 World Fair. Beyond the Ice Cream Cone

"The Whole Scoop on Food at the 1904 World's Fair." You’ll learn little known stories about what people ate and drank at the Fair and how companies like Pillsbury, Heinz andJell-O tried to influence the fairgoer through food education and lots of free samples.

Inuit Entertainers in the United States world fair book Inuit Entertainers in the United States
From the Chicago World's Fair through the Birth of Hollywood

Jim Zwick's new book documents 30 years of Inuit involvement in American entertainment before the 1922 release of Nanook of the North. Inuit from Labrador and Alaska performed at world's fairs and expositions, with Barnum & Bailey's Circus, at dime museums, at amusement parks and in Hollywood movies during the silent film era.

Fair America World's  Fairs in the United States Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States

Billed by their promoters as "encyclopedias of civilization" expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Illustrated with archival photographs of fair buildings, exhibits, and souvenirs, this book surveys 150 years of these dazzling, culturally revealing events.

The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893

The Exposition honored the 400th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to America. Abundantly illustrated with historical photographs, this account tells of the fair's planning and construction and describes the exhibits, giving a sense of its extraordinary scale and the meaning it had for those who attended.

World of Fairs The century of progress Expositions. World of Fairs: The Century-Of-Progress Expositions

This book continues Robert Rydell's cultural history begun in All the World's a Fair, this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions, the purposes of their organizers and the visions of America they signify.

A world on Display 1904 Photographs from the St. Louis World's fair A World on Display 1904 : Photographs from the St. Louis World's Fair

The Fair's organizers brought some 2,000 native people to St. Louis to take part in the most extensive anthropological exhibits ever assembled for a world's fair. The author has assembled seventy-five photographs of these "living exhibits" and explores what the photographs represented when they were made, how they were used and what significance they hold for viewers today.

All the World's A Fair All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916

This book is an extensive study of American World's Fairs from 1876 to 1915, a pivotal period in this country's history. The author gives a lot of historical background about that era, plus well-researched information about the expositions of that period.

Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (The American Ways Series) Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (The American Ways Series)

"A lively survey of Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and how the Great Fair mirrored American values and tastes at the turn of the century."

The New York World's Fair 1939 1940 in Photographs. The New York World's Fair, 1939/1940 in 155 Photographs

Photographic tour of best-loved world’s fair: the 700-foot-tall Trylon; the 200-foot-wide Perisphere; GM’s Futurama ride; 3-D movies, Elektro, a robot seven feet tall; artwork by Salvador Dali, Rockwell Kent, Alexander Calder, much else. 155 photographs.

World's fairs and the end of progress World's Fairs and the End of Progress: An Insider's View

This book provides an overview of world's fairs at the turn of the millennium. It describes the nature of fairs, shows how they have evolved, and considers where our fairs may be headed. The author demonstrates how in varying degrees fairs have tried to cope with the progress/environment issue, and suggests how they (and by implication the society as a whole) can do a better job of it in the future.

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