Jon Paul Sank's World's Fairs Page

Jon Paul Sank's WORLD'S FAIRS PAGE Bringing You Into the International Exposition Experience
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This huge World's Fairs page is experience-oriented. It includes all the official World Expos since 1851 and a selection of other big fairs. I hope that it's useful to students and researchers as well as anyone who just wants to see, hear, or read what the great expos were like. Just push a year button, and the year's expo(s) will open for you. With all the videos, music, lectures, books, documentaries, digital collections, guidebooks, pictures, 3-D reconstructions, and more, it won't take you long to find something marvelous!

The Topic

Lists:
- List of world expositions (sanctioned by the BIE) (Wikipedia)
- List of world's fairs (international, colonial, national) (Wikipedia)
- All Expos (at Bureau International des Expositions)
Websites, Pages:
- Bureau International des Expositions (bie-paris.org)
- Expo Museum (expomuseum.com)
  - Blog
  - World's Fair Timeline:
- Les Expositions Universelles (worldfairs.info)
  - Chronologie
  - Carte des Vestiges
- World Exhibitions (worldexhibition.org)
- Trading Culture and Concepts: History of the World's Fairs (54488121.weebly.com)
- Revisiting the World's Fairs and International Exhibitions (at Smithsonian Libraries)
- World's Fair and Exposition Information and Resource Guide (at Earth Station 9)
- SteviesTV.com World Fairs
- Expositions: Where the Modern Technology of the Times was Exhibited (at National Diet Library, Japan)
- World's Fair History Quick List (at JDP Econ)
- Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs and Exhibitions (at University of Delaware)
- World Fairs in the Modern Period (modernworldfairs.weebly.com)
- Exposition Architecture (at ArchInForm)
- The World's Fair Community (worldsfaircommunity.org)
- World Expo Museum (expo-museum.org) In English
  - Documentation Center: Channel WE (articles)
  - Collections (photos and descriptions of artifacts)
- World's Fairs (at Flipboard)
Blogs:
- Laurent Antoine LeMog, World Expo Consultant (lemog3d.blogspot.com, en français)
- When the World Was Fair (whentheworldwasfair.wordpress.com)
- KenBlog: A Blog Devoted to World's Fairs and Expositions (expoguy2.blogspot.com):
  - 2009
  - 2008
Video:
- Brève histoire des Expos Universelles (1851-2010) (YouTube, overview video using pictures and music, 9m14s)
- Inventing the Modern World: The Miracle of Glass (video, museum exhibit, 3m13s, at Vimeo)
- Flat Earth British: "The Crystal Palace" & "The Expositions" Was It Arson? (YouTube, home documentary, 38m33s)
- Lectures:
  - C100 Annual Luncheon: World's Fairs to Remember (YouTube, lecture, 36m49s)
  - How World's Fairs and Trade Expos Brought You the Future (YouTube, lecture, 56m45s)
  - Science International 2: Universalism in Action - The Age of Exhibitions (YouTube, lecture, 1h00m43s)
  - Neil Harris: The World On Display in the American World's Fairs (1h02m44s, at Dallas Museum of Art, see under "Related Multimedia")
- Multiple:
  - World Exhibitions (YouTube Playlist, 54 videos)
  - The World of Expos! (YouTube Playlist, 80 videos)
  - World's Fairs (before WWII) (YouTube Playlist, 30 videos)
  - World's Fair Historic Films (YouTube Playlist, 28 videos)
  - World's Fairs and Great Expositions (YouTube Playlist, 20 videos)
  - World's Fair Related (YouTube Playlist, 33 videos)
  - World's Fairs on YouTube (search results)
  - Tag: World's Fairs (videos at History Channel)
Audio:
- The World's Fair Podcast (worldsfairpodcast.blogspot.com)
- Eye of the Beholder: Visitor Experience at 19th-Century World Fairs (SoundCloud, lecture, 1h00m21s)
Pictures:
- Ansichtskarten Weltausstellungen (World's Fair Postcards) (category at akpool.de)
- Category:World's Fairs (at Wikimedia Commons)
- A Photographic Tour of the Wonders That World's Fairs Leave Behind (at Smithsonian Magazine)
- World's Fairs Photographs (at Winterthur Digital Collections)
Music:
- World's Fair Waltz by Jan Garber and his Orchestra (audio, 2m46s, at Internet Archive)
- Guide to the World Fairs & International Expositions sheet music collection (list at Online Archive of California)
- At the World's Fair (pictures, mostly of album covers, 1958-1970, at Music Eureka)
- "World's Fair" (search results, notated music, at Library of Congress)
- "Exposition" (search results, notated music, at Library of Congress)
Collections, Archives:
- Brown Digital Repository: "Exposition Universelle" (search results)
- Fresno State: World's Fair (search results)
- Hagley Digital Archives (search results):
- Henry Ford Museum:
  - Ford at the Fair Exhibition (an "expert set")
  - Henry Ford: Worlds Fair (an "expert set")
  - "World's Fair" (search results)
- Historypin: World's Fairs and Expositions (digital collection)
- Indiana University: World's Fairs: A Guide to Selected English-Language Resources (PDF, bibliographic guide)
- Internet Archive: "World's Fair" OR "International Exposition" OR "Exposition Universelle" OR Weltausstellung (search results)
- National Museum of American History: "world's fair" (search results)
- Online Archive of California: "Expositions" (search results)
- Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center (search results):
- Smithsonian Libraries: World's Fairs
- University of Delaware: Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs and Expositions (at Internet Archive)
Memorabilia:
- World's Fair Collectibles (at eBay)
- World's Fair Photos (worldsfairphotos.com)
- World's Fair Auction (worldsfairauction.com)
- Expo Medals: Guide to Award Medals from US Expositions (expomedals.com)
Texts:
- Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader (PDF, book, 559pp, at Research Gate)
- International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and World's Fairs, 1851-2005: A Bibliography (PDF, book, 94pp, at Fresno State University Henry Madden Library)
- Fiction (and Film) Set at the World's Fairs and Expositions (list, at Beyond Rivalry)
- Marvels of the World's Fair[s] (article, at History Daily)
- American Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs (article at AFA News)
- World's Fairs and UNI (article, at University of Northern Iowa)
- World's Fairs Then, Now, and Whenever (article, at Voice of America)
- Incubator-Baby Side Shows (article, at Neonatology on the Web)
- Les monuments emblématiques dressés pour des expositions universelles (article and pictures, at Barcelo: Pin and Travel)
Places:
- Antwerp:
  - De Antwerpse Wereldtentoonstellingen (YouTube, documentary, 17m18s)
- Barcelona:
  - Relics of the World's Fair: Barcelona (article and photos at Atlas Obscura)
- Chicago:
  - Annual World's Fair Memorabilia Show (worldsfairshow.com)
    - Rick Rann: 24th Annual World's Fair Memorabilia Show (audio, 18m16s, at WGN Radio)
- Hawaii:
  - Hawai'i at the World Fairs, 1867�1893 (article, at World History Connected)
- Italy:
  - 1851-2015, L'Italia nelle Esposizioni Universali - Fondazione Bracco incontra (YouTube, panel, 3m13s)
- Liège:
  - Les Expositions Universelles et Internationales a Liège (YouTube, pictures with added music, 5m10s)
- Korea:
  - Korea in World Expos: An History Since 1893 ... Re-Born in 3-D! (YouTube, 3-D models with added music, 17m36s)
- New York:
  - Treasures from the World's Fair: Futuristic Objects from the Past (audio, podcast episode, 1h05m30s)
  - New York World�s Fair Collections (nyworldsfaircollections.tumblr.com)
  - Welcome to the Fair! The 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs (exhibit description with photos at New York State Library)
  - The New York World's Fairs: The "World of Tomorrow" Celebrated Today (digital exhibit, at Hofstra University)
- Paris:
  - Christiane Demeulenaere-Douy�re: "Paris et les expositions universelles" (YouTube, lecture, 59m54s)
  - Conférence: Extraordinaires Expositions Universelles (YouTube, pictures and talk, 1h40m04s)
  - Les expositions universelles à Paris: Entre 1867 et 1900 (digital view book, at Archives Nationales)
  - Paris: Capital of the 19th Century: The Expositions Universelles in Nineteenth Century Paris (at Brown University Library)
  - Les Expositions Universelles de Paris (PDF, academic paper, 9pp, at Académie des Beaux-Arts)
  - Vestiges des expositions universelles, coloniales, et internationales de Paris (expositions-universelles.fr)
  - Le cinéma dans les Expositions Internationales et Universelles parisiennes de 1900 à 1937 (PDF, dissertation, 213pp)
- San Francisco:
  - Fairs and Expositions (search results at Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco)
- United States of America:
  - Centuries of Progress: American World's Fairs, 1853-1982 (YouTube, museum preview, 10m37s)
Other:
- How the 'World of Tomorrow' Became a Thing of the Past (article with video, 4m41s, at Time)
- Global Map of World's Fairs Remnants (at Les Expositions Universelles)

Section Last Modified February 25, 2023