JPS World's Fairs: 1900-1901

JON PAUL SANK'S WORLD'S FAIRS PAGE (1900-1901)

1900 PARIS (BIE World Expo):

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Video:
- 1900 Panoramic View of the Paris Exposition from the Seine River (YouTube, silent, 6m06s)
- Exposition Universelle de 1900 (YouTube, silent, 21m00s)
- 1900: The Paris Exposition Universelle (Speed corrected w/ added sound) (YouTube, 35m46s)
- Videos of the Exposition Universelle (1900) (at Wikimedia Commons)
- Open University: A305/02: The Universal International Exhibition, Paris, 1900 (YouTube, educational unit, 23m49s)
- Paris 1900: City of Entertainment (YouTube, lecture, 1h05m00s)
- Documentaries
  - Exposition 1900 (YouTube, documentary, in Russian, 14m16s)
  - L'Expo Universelle de 1900 (video, documentary, 9m50s, at Daily Motion)
  - 20th Century Almanac: 1900: World Exhibition in Paris (YouTube, documentary, 8m20s)
- Television:
  - Paris 1900: La Ville Spectacle (France TV: La Galerie France 5) (YouTube, TV documentary, 1h07m09s)
  - Notre Histoire de 1900 à 1920: L'Exposition Universelle de 1900 (TV segment, animated, at France TV)
- 3-D Models:
  - Reconstitution Historique 3-D: Exposition Universelle de Paris 1900: Trailer No 1 (YouTube, 5m06s)
  - La Rue des Nations 1900 (YouTube, 9m35s)
- Paris 1900 (YouTube Playlist, 21 videos)
- L'Œuvre Cinématographique des Frères Lumière: Série: Exposition Universelle de Paris 1900 (list and stills, at Catalogue Lumière)
Pictures:
- L'Exposition Universelle de Paris de 1900 (YouTube, color pictures with period music, 13m20s)
- Expo: Exposition Universelle 1900 (YouTube, pictures of postcards, with added music, 5m01s)
- 50 Photogravures (view book, 108pp, at Internet Archive)
- L'Architecture et La Sculpture à l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 (view book, 77pp, at Internet Archive)
- Exposition Universelle 1900: 32 Vues Photographiques (view book, 36pp, at Internet Archive)
- L' Exposition Universelle de 1900 à Paris (at L'Art Nouveau)
- Exposition Universelle de 1900 (slideshow, at National Gallery of Art)
- Categories at Wikimedia Commons:
Audio:
- Paris 1900 Conférence 1: L'Art Nouveau à l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 (YouTube, 1h11m58s)
- Paris 1900 Conférence 19: Caricature et Illustration à l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 (YouTube, 1h22m13s)
- Paris 1900 Conférences (YouTube Playlist, 17 videos)
- 1900: l'Exposition universelle, un "Disneyland colonial"? (audio, 8m12s, at France Culture)
Guides, Maps, Catalogues:
- Guides Pratiques Conty: L'Exposition 1900 (guidebook, 136pp, at Internet Archive)
- Guide-commode Indicateur de l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 (guide booklet, 66pp, at Internet Archive)
- Le Guide Remboursable du Journal "Matin" (guidebook, 430pp, at Internet Archive)
- Paris Exposition, 1900: Guide Pratique du Visiteur (guidebook, 484pp, at Internet Archive)
- Guide Illustré du Bon Marché (guidebook, 382pp, at Internet Archive)
- Maps (at Wikimedia Commons)
- Exposition Universelle de Paris 1900 (interactive map, at Open Street Map)
- Catalogue Général Officiel (books, at Smithsonian)
Exhibits, Pavilions, Shows:
- American Negro Exhibit
  - Visualizing Black America Through W.E.B. DuBois' Data Portraits (YouTube, documentary, 3m16s)
  - How W.E.B. Du Bois Disrupted America's Dominance at the World's Fair (article, at Smithsonian Magazine)
  - Du Bois' Data Portraits Tell A Story About Black Life In Georgia And Beyond (article, at WABE)
  - Du Bois's American Negro Exhibit for the 1900 Paris Exposition (article, at Library of Congress)
- Ancient Paris (Le Vieux Paris)
  - Le Vieux Paris à l'Exposition de 1900 (YouTube, 14m20s)
- Austria (Pavillon de l'Autriche)
  - Officieller Führer durch die Österreichischen Abtheilungen der Weltausstellung Paris 1900 (guide book, at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)
  - Österreich auf der Weltausstellung 1900 (book, 180pp, at Internet Archive)
- Ballon Cinéorama:
  - The Epic Story Of Cinéorama, VR Cinema's Ancestor (article, with pictures, at VRRoom)
- Balloons:
  - Balloon Race 9-10 October 1900 (article, at This Day In Aviation)
  - Les Ascensions en Ballon (article and pictures, at Vincennes Aviation)
- Banquets:
  - Le Plus Grand Banquet du Monde (article at Un Jour de Plus à Paris)
  - Banquet Officiel à l'Exposition de 1900 (menu artwork, at Christian Richet)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
  - When Mucha painted Bosnia (article, with pictures, at Radio Free Europe)
  - Pavillon de la Bosnie-Herzégovine (article with photos, at Christian Richet)
- China (pavillon de la Chine) (file, JPG)
  - Les Participations de la Chine dans les Expositions universelles à Paris 1867, 1878, 1889 et 1900 (YouTube, 3-D models with music, 12m43s)
  - Le Parc Chinois (YouTube, 3-D model, 3m15s)
- Diesel:
  - Dieselmotor lief schon 1900 mit Erdnussöl (article, at Proplanta)
- Electric Train:
  - Premier train électrique de France : c'est à Issy en avril 1900 (article, at Historim)
- Gare D'Orsay
  - The Station (article, at Musée d'Orsay)
  - Musée d'Orsay (reference entry, at Structurae)
- Globe Céleste
  - Le Globe Céleste de l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 (article, at Les Yeux d'Argus)
  - The Grand Globe Céleste, 1900 (article, at John Coulthart Feuilleton)
- Le Grand Palais
  - Paris 1900: The "American School" at the Universal Exposition (article, at Montclair Art Museum)
- Lombard Haggadah:
  - A chance to see a rare Hebrew manuscript made in medieval Milan (article, at Apollo Magazine)
- Moving Sidewalk (Rue de l'Avenir, le trottoir roulant)
  - Dateline Paris 1900: The Astounding Moving Electrical Sidewalk (article, with photos, at Parisian Fields)
  - Paris en Trottoirs Roulants (article at Futura Tech)
- National Manufactures (Palais des Manufactures Nationales)
  - Parfumerie Houbigant (article with pictures, at Christian Richet)
  - Perfumers on Perfume: Paul Parquet (article at Bois de Jasmin)
- Olympics
  - Events (pictures, at Wikimedia Commons)
  - Paris hosts 1900 Olympics, even though many didn't know it (article, at WSLS Sports)
- Palais de l'Électricité
  - L'histoire de l'extraordinaire Palais de l'Électricité (article, with pictures, at Vivre Paris)
- Pavillon de l'Alma
  - L'Exposition "Rodin" au Pavillon de l'Alma (1900) (article at L'Histoire Par L'Image)
- Porte Monumentale (main entrance)
  - Panoramic View of the Place de L'Concord (Edison) (YouTube, silent, 1m39s)
  - Paris 1900 and the Porte Monumentale (article at Matthew Denney)
  - A World of Things in Emergence and Growth: René Binet's Porte Monumentale at the 1900 Paris Exposition (PDF, book chapter, 26pp, at Glasgow School of Arts)
- Russian Nesting Dolls:
  - Matryoshka dolls: The story behind the nesting Russian dolls (article, at Insure And Go)
  - Beautiful And Meaningful (A Russian Nesting Dolls History) (article, at Inside Nesting Dolls)
- Spain
  - Young Picasso in Paris (article, with pictures, at Apollo)
Music:
- Opera:
  - Un jour, une création : 2 février 1900, à Paris en mélo (article with video, at Forum Opera)
    - Louise (Gustave Charpentier) (Opéra National de Paris, 2007) (YouTube, performance, 2h56m53s)
    - Aria, "Depuis le jour" (Maria Callas) (YouTube, audio video, 4m47s)
    - Aria, "Depuis le jour" (Maria Callas) (YouTube, audio, with score, 6m02s)
    - Aria, "Depuis le jour" (Renée Fleming) (YouTube, performance, 5m52s)
- L'Exposition Universelle (Robert Fienga) (YouTube):
  - Concert de Gala: Harmonie de Bourges (YouTube, musical performance, with projected expo pictures, 7m21s)
  - Orchestre d'Harmonie Départemental Junior de Haute-Garonne (YouTube, musical performance, 6m55s)
  - Harmonie Municipale de Berlaimont (YouTube, audio, musical performance, 9m15s)
- Les Musiques Bizarres à l'Exposition de 1900: Danse Javanaise. Danse du Diable (printed music, 32pp, at Internet Archive)
  - At Google Play
- La Musique (article at parisexhibitionrubery.wordpress.com)
- Les Chansons de l'Histoire 1900-1904 (YouTube Playlist, 36 audio videos)
Texts:
- Les Maisons d'Édition à l'Exposition Universelle de Paris en 1900 (publications list with links, at Christian Richet)
- Books:
  - L'Art à l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 (book, 513pp, at Internet Archive)
  - Le Musée Rétrospectif de la Photographie (book, 102pp, at Internet Archive)
  - Musée Rétrospectif de la Classe 100: Jouets (toys) (book, 320pp, at Internet Archive)
  - Paris World's Fair, 1900 (booklet, 50pp, at Internet Archive)
  - L'Exposition Universelle de Paris 1900 (books, at Internet Archive):
    - Volume 1 (324pp)
    - Volume 2 (324pp)
    - Volume 3 (324pp)
  - Le Livre d'Or de l'Exposition de 1900 (book, 334pp, at Internet Archive)
  - L'Exposition du Siècle (book, 369pp, at Internet Archive)
  - Die Pariser Weltausstellung in Wort und Bild (PDF, book, 526pp, at Wikimedia Commons)
  - Cuarentas Déas en la Exposición (book, 283pp, at Internet Archive)
  - Concours Pour les Deux Palais des Champs-Élysées: Exposition Universelle de 1900 (booklet, 16pp, at Internet Archive)
  - Chefs d'Œuvre of the Exposition Universelle 1900 (books at Internet Archive):
    - Volume 1 (91pp)
    - Volume 2 (95pp)
    - Volume 3 (95pp)
    - Volume 4 (95pp)
    - Volume 5 (95pp)
    - Volume 6 (95pp)
    - Volume 7 (95pp)
    - Volume 8 (95pp)
    - Volume 9 (114pp)
    - Volume 10 (90pp)
  - The Burton Holmes Lectures, Volume 2: Round About Paris; The Paris Exposition (book, 336pp, at Internet Archive)
- The 1900 World's Fair Produced Dazzling Dynamos, Great Art, and Our Current Conversation About Technology (article, at Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation)
Collections, Archives:
- "Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris France)" (search results, at Smithsonian Institution)
- Getty Research Institute: Exposition Universelle de 1900 (books, at Internet Archive)
- Other:
  - Exposition Universelle de Paris 1900 (PPT, presentation, at H.G. Besançon)
1901 BUFFALO (Non-BIE):
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Websites, Pages:
- Doing the Pan (panam1901.org)
  - Table of Contents
  - Documents and Stories
  - This Day in 1901 (from the Buffalo Evening News)
    - Archives (all days of the year)
  - Tours
  - Visiting the Exposition
  - Weather
  - Pan-American Exposition Links (at History of Buffalo)
Video:
- Pan-American Exposition by Night, 1901 (video, 0m51s, at Internet Archive)
- A Video Visit to the Pan American Exposition of 1901 (YouTube, documentary):
  - Part 1: The Big Show (7m07s)
  - (Part 2 was not found.)
  - Part 3: Horticulture, Agriculture, U.S. Government, and Ethnology (8m33s)
  - Part 4: Electric, Larkin, Manufactures and Liberal Arts (9m36s)
  - Part 5: Arts, Hospital, and Electric Tower (8m55s)
  - Part 6: Temple of Music, Alt Nurnburg and Trip to the Moon (9m52s)
  - Part 7: The Midway, Infant Incubators and Night Scenes at the Pan Am (7m20s)
- A trip around the Pan-American Exposition 1901 (full version) (YouTube, silent documentary, 11m58s)
- Panorama of Esplanade by Night (Thomas A. Edison) (video, 1m02s, at Library of Congress)
  - At YouTube
- Horse Parade at the Pan-American Exposition (Thomas A. Edison) (YouTube, 2m29s)
- Pan-American Exposition Films (YouTube, 9 videos, silent)
- Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901 (video collection, 36 items, at Library of Congress)
- The Exposition (YouTube Channel, 7 videos)
- Lectures, Interviews:
- Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo History Museum) (TV segment, 19m20s, at C-SPAN3)
- Visitors to Buffalo's 1901 Pan American Exposition (January 23, 2018) (YouTube, 42m39s)
- Pan-American Exposition 0f 1901: Conference (2015) (YouTube Playlist, 12 videos)
Pictures:
- Official Views of Pan-American Exposition (view book, 120pp, at Internet Archive)
  - At Google Play Books
- Pan-American Exposition Photograph Collection (36 items, at Kennedy Library Online Archive, California Polytechnic University)
  - Guide to the Pan-American Exposition Photograph Collection, 1901 (PDF, 11pp)
- At Wikimedia Commons:
  - Pan-American Exposition
  - At Night
Guides, Maps, Catalogues:
- Official Catalogue and Guide-Book to the Pan-American Exposition (book, 229pp, at Internet Archive)
  - At Google Play Books
- The Rand-McNally Handbook to the Pan-American Exposition (PDF, book, 259pp, at Forgotten Books)
- The Pan-American Exposition and how to see it (booklet, 79pp, at Internet Archive)
  - At Google Play Books
- Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the Pan-American Exposition (book, 95pp, at Internet Archive)
  - At Google Play Books
Exhibits, Pavilions, Shows:
- Baby Incubators:
  - Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901 (article, at Neonatology on the Web)
- Calamity Jane:
  - Calamity Jane at the Fair (janeatthefair.tumblr.com)
  - Calamity Jane, Frontierswoman (YouTube Playlist, 273 videos)
- Closing Day:
  - End of the Pan-American (Scientific American, November 1901, page 309) (article, at Internet Archive)
- Dreamland
  - A Dreamland at the 1901 Buffalo World's Fair (article at Weird and Wonderful America)
- Electric Tower
  - Panoramic View of Electric Tower from a Balloon (actually an up-and-down pan from the ground) (video, Edison film, silent, 1m24s, at Library of Congress)
  - Circular Panorama of Electric Tower (video, Edison film, silent, 2m22s, at Library of Congress)
- Esquimaux Village:
  - 1901 Pan American Exposition Esquimaux Village (Silent) (YouTube, 1m21s)
- Fair Japan
  - Japanese village (video, Edison film, silent, acrobat performance, 2m42s, at Library of Congress)
- Midway
  - Spanish Dancers at the Pan-American Exposition (video, Edison film, silent, at Library of Congress)
  - The Midway (article, at Uncrowned Community Builders)
- New York State Building
  - The Buffalo History Museum (a.k.a. New York State Pavilion, 1901) (article, at Weird and Wonderful America)
- Opening Day:
  - President Williams McKinley's Address Opening the Pan American Exposition (YouTube, audio, 2m25s)
  - Opening Pan-American Exposition (Thomas A. Edison) (YouTube, silent, 1m51s)
- Stadium
  - The Stadium (YouTube, documentary, 2m31s)
  - Sham Battle at the Pan-American Exposition (Thomas A. Edison) (YouTube, silent):
    - Part 1 (1m09s)
    - Part 2 (3m59s)
- Temple of Music
  - Temple of Music (article, at A Treasure of World's Fair and Architecture)
- A Trip to the Moon:
  - In 1901, you could pay 50 cents to ride an airship to the Moon (article, at IO9)
  - A Trip to the Moon! (article, at Coney: A Trip to Luna Park)
  - A Trip to the Moon (Hand-drawn Color, 1902) (YouTube, movie, 13m58s)
  - Coney Island History: The Story of Thompson and Dundy's Luna Park (article, at Heart of Coney Island)
Music:
- Put Me Off at Buffalo (John and Harry Dillon):
  - Put Me Off at Buffalo (S.H. Dudley, singer) (YouTube, audio with pictures and lyrics, 4m42s)
  - Played on Stella Grand 17-1/4 Inch Music Box (YouTube, 1m37s)
  - Welcome Little Stranger performing (YouTube, audio, 2m27s)
  - Put Me Off at Buffalo (PDF, sheet music, 5pp, at Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection)
  - Put Me Off at Buffalo (Music Trade Review horticulture description, at Museum of the Game)
- At the Pan-I-Marry-Can (Dillon Harry, John Dillon; sung by Will F. Denny) (YouTube, audio, wax cylinder playing, 3m52s)
  - Metropolitan Orchestra performing (audio, at Library of Congress)
  - Sheet Music (6pp, piano and voice, at New York Public Library)
- Don't Put Me Off at Buffalo Any More (William Jerome, Jean Schwartz) (sheet music, piano and voice, 6pp, at NYPL Digital Collections)
  - Audio Sample and Lyrics (at MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada)
- A: Peruvian Triste. B: Pan-American Waltz (audio, 4m47s, at Internet Archive)
- Pan-Am Rag (Tom Turpin) (notated music, manuscript, 5pp, at Library of Congress)
- Panamericana (Victor Herbert) (YouTube, audio with follow-along score, 2m13s)
  - Eastman-Dryden Orchestra performing (under Donald Hunsberger) (YouTube, audio, 3m42s)
  - Matlab Synthesizer (YouTube, audio, 3m08s)
  - A: Punchinello. B: Pan Americana. (Victor Young and His Concert Orchestra) (audio, 2m40s and 2m55s, at Internet Archive)
  - Sheet Music (at IMSLP)
  - Victor Herbert: Collected Songs (YouTube Playlist, 102 audio videos)
  - Victor Herbert Music: Various Artists (YouTube Playlist, 83 videos)
  - Victor Herbert: Works for Cello and Piano/Solo Piano Works (YouTube Playlist, music album, 26 videos)
- The Ballad of Czolgosz (sung by Neil Patrick Harris, from Assassins) (YouTube, audio, 2m45s)
  - With Archival Footage and Photos
- Wake Me Up At Buffalo (W.C. Harmon, Louis Falk) (JPG, sheet music cover, at Jon Paul Sank's World's Fairs Page)
Assassination of President McKinley:
- Passing the Torch: McKinley, Roosevelt and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition (YouTube, documentary, 26m51s)
- The Whitehall Lecture Series Presents: The President and the Assassin (YouTube, lecture, 1h10m08s)
- C-SPAN Q&A: Scott Miller, Author, The President and the Assassin (YouTube, interview, 58m23s)
- Assassination of President McKinley (video, documentary, 12m08s, at C-Span)
- The mob outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition (when President McKinley was assassinated) (YouTube, silent, 1m16s)
- Topics in Chronicling America: The McKinley Assassination (newspaper article collection, at Library of Congress)
- One of the Last Things Signed by William McKinley: A Souvenir Booklet from the Pan-American Exposition (page images, 16pp, at Shapell)
Texts:
- Pan-American Exposition Buffalo: Its Purpose and Its Plan (booklet, 68pp, at Hathi Trust)
- The Cosmopolitan, September 1901: Souvenir Number of the Buffalo Exposition (magazine, 192pp, at Internet Archive)
- The Pan-American Exposition (The World's Work, August 1901) (article, at Google Books)
- Short Stories of Interesting Exhibits (The World's Work, August 1901) (article, at Google Books)
- All roads will lead to Buffalo in September (brochure, at Library of Congress)
- List of Prizes (Buffalo Morning Express) (PDF, book, 91pp, at Google Drive)
- Pan American Exposition: World's Fair as Historical Metaphor (book excerpt, at History of Buffalo)
- Buffalo Builds the 1901 Pan-American Exposition (book excerpt, at History of Buffalo)
- Immigrant Communities of Buffalo and the Pan-American Exposition (33pp, at University of Buffalo)
- 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, "The Rainbow City" (article, at Hermon Atkins MacNeil)
- Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City a colorful look at 1901 Pan-Am (book review, at Buffalo News)
- Learn: The Pan-American Exposition (article, at Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site)
- Centennial of the Pan-American Exposition (article, at UB Reporter)
Collections, Archives:
- Pan-American Exposition of 1901 Digital Collection (at University at Buffalo)
  - Browse
- Pan-American Exposition Scrapbooks (at New York Heritage Digital Collections)

Section Last Modified May 21, 2023