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World's Fair Gardens

Author : Cathy Jean Maloney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813933115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book World's Fair Gardens written by Cathy Jean Maloney and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As showcases for dramatic changes in garden style and new technology, world's fairs offered leading landscape designers and nurserymen the chance to tempt visitors to try new garden trends in backyards across the nation. From horticultural innovations to new landscape styles, the wonders displayed at these fairs had a distinct influence on America's largest urban parks. In World's Fair Gardens, Cathy Jean Maloney offers a lavishly illustrated exploration of the gardens and grounds of America's nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century world's fairs. Maloney describes the landscapes of nine of America's great fairs from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia to the 1940 World's Fair of Tomorrow in New York, many of whose legacies are still evident. The fairs also created an arena for intense competition among nations. Foreign plant introductions included English rhododendrons in Philadelphia, Mexican cacti in New Orleans, and Japanese gardens at nearly all the fairs, a feat considering the formidable challenge of shipping live plants great distances in those times. Maloney also explores innovations from the "glazeless putty system" greenhouse in 1884 and cold storage systems in 1904 to modernistic glass fences in 1940. Complete with more than 50 color and 70 black-and-white illustrations, World's Fair Gardens will appeal to historians, gardeners, urban planners, landscape architects, public park advocates, preservationists, and anyone interested in the history of these global festivals. Supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

A Walk in the Garden

Author : Gloria Salavarria
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521090237
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Walk in the Garden written by Gloria Salavarria and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middlebury's Krider World's Fair Garden is one of the oldest botanical garden parks in Indiana and the oldest garden park to be found in a small town. Learn about the history of Krider Gardens. This book will introduce you to the special features of this small town garden park, and it will tell you the story of one of our nation's first mail-order nurseries, Krider Nurseries, the people who worked in this business and the impact that this business and its garden had on the town of Middlebury.

A Walk in the Garden

Author : Krider Garden Book Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520918198
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book A Walk in the Garden written by Krider Garden Book Committee and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middlebury's Krider World's Fair Garden is one of the oldest botanical garden parks in Indiana and the oldest garden park to be found in a small town. Learn about the history of Krider Gardens. This book will introduce you to the special features of this small town garden park, and it will tell you the story of one of our nation's first mail-order nurseries, Krider Nurseries, the people who worked in this business and the impact that this business and its garden had on the town of Middlebury.

The Devil In The White City

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409044602
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Devil In The White City written by Erik Larson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century . . .

The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair

Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439642141
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair written by Bill Cotter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertised as the "Billion-Dollar Fair," the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair transformed a sleepy park in the borough of Queens into a fantasy world enjoyed by more than 51 million visitors from around the world. While many countries and states exhibited at the fair, the most memorable pavilions were built by the giants of American industry. Their exhibits took guests backward and forward in time, all the while extolling how marvelous everyday life would be through the use of their products. Many of the techniques used in these shows set the standard for future fairs and theme parks, and the pavilions that housed them remain the most elaborate structures ever built for an American fair. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair showcases the beauty of this international spectacular through rare color photographs, published here for the first time.

The World's Fair

Author : Thomas L. Tedrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590226561
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The World's Fair written by Thomas L. Tedrow and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While reporting the events of the St. Louis World's Fair for her local newspaper in 1906, Laura Ingalls Wilder teams up with Alice Roosevelt to stop the inhuman Anthropological Games.

World's Fairs

Author : Erik Mattie
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981321
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book World's Fairs written by Erik Mattie and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As showcases of design, architecture, technology, industry and politics, world's fairs have served as overviews of society's accomplishments as well as barometers of the optimism for the future. While many of the products and ideas promoted at past fairs never materialized, many became commonplace: television, for example, was first shown at the 1939 New York fair. Similarly, while many buildings and landscapes built for fairs have become world-wide icons - the Eiffel Tower, the Crystal Palace, the Barcelona Pavilion, the Seattle Space Needle, the Buckminster Fuller Dome in Montreal - hundreds of splendid structures have been forgotten.

Exhibiting Mormonism

Author : Reid Larkin Neilson
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195384032
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Exhibiting Mormonism written by Reid Larkin Neilson and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reid L. Neilson provides the first examination of Latter-day Saint participation in the 1893 Columbian Exposition, which was a watershed moment in the Mormon migration to the American mainstream and its leadership's discovery of public relations efforts, and marked the dramatic reengagement of the LDS Church with the outside, non-Mormon world after decades of isolation in America's Great Basin desert.

World's Fair Collectibles

Author : Howard M. Rossen
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764304606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book World's Fair Collectibles written by Howard M. Rossen and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two landmark World's Fairs, 1933 in Chicago and 1939 in New York, remembered by their souvenirs and promotional items. Tour each, see the thrilling Skyride of 1933 and the towering Trylon of 1939. Color photographs illustrate the vast array of posters, souvenirs, and memorabilia depicting attractions and exhibits from both fairs.

The Chicago World's Fair of 1893

Author : Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486130630
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 128 rare, vintage photographs: 200 buildings — 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states — the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index.

Grand Illusions

Author : Neil Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Grand Illusions written by Neil Harris and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of every facet of Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition illustrated with hundreds of cultural artifacts.

St. Louis

Author : Joe Sonderman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738561097
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book St. Louis written by Joe Sonderman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains captioned, archival photographs that trace the history of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, from the groundbreaking to the closing ceremonies.

The Dream City

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dream City written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tomorrow-Land

Author : Joseph Tirella
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149300333X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tomorrow-Land written by Joseph Tirella and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "Master Builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964-65 World' s Fair was a Sixties flashpoint in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, the New York Times bestseller Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the Fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's La Pieta from Europe; and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA—from undersea and outerspace colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol (until Governor Rockefeller had it removed); and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the Fair—and its house band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians—sat in the musical shadows of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock-and-roll right there in Queens. And as Southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and violent protests also occurred in and around the Fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World's Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures, nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent, Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964-65 Fair was truly exceptional.

Chicago's 1893 World's Fair

Author : Joseph M. Di Cola
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738594415
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Chicago's 1893 World's Fair written by Joseph M. Di Cola and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What came to be known as the World s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus s 1492 landfall in the New World. Chicago beat out New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, DC, in its bid as host a coup for the Windy City. The site finally selected for the fair was Jackson Park, originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, a marshy area covered with dense, wild vegetation. Daniel H. Burnham and John W. Root were selected as chief architects, creating the famous White City. The fair featured several different thematic areas: the Great Buildings, Foreign Buildings, State Buildings, and the Midway Plaisance, a nearly mile-long area that featured exotic exhibits. The exposition also showcased the world s first Ferris Wheel and introduced fairgoers to new sensations like Cracker Jack, Pabst Beer, and ragtime music. The World s Columbian Exposition, covering 633 acres, opened on May 1, 1893. Admission prices were 50cents for adults, 25cents for children under 12 years of age, and free for children under six. Unfortunately, by 1896, most of the fair s buildings had been removed or destroyed, but this collection takes readers on a tour of the grounds as they looked in 1893."

Sights, Scenes and Wonders at the World's Fair

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Sights, Scenes and Wonders at the World's Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 1933 Chicago World's Fair

Author : Cheryl Ganz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252078527
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The 1933 Chicago World's Fair written by Cheryl Ganz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair reflected a business-military-engineering model that envisioned a promising future through science and technology's application to everyday life. But not everyone at Chicago's 1933 exposition had abandoned notions of progress that entailed social justice and equality, recognition of ethnicity and gender, and personal freedom and expression. The fair's motto, "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms," was challenged by iconoclasts such as Sally Rand, whose provocative fan dance became a persistent symbol of the fair, as well as a handful of other exceptional individuals, including African Americans, ethnic populations and foreign nationals, groups of working women, and even well-heeled socialites. Cheryl R. Ganz offers the stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the depths of the Great Depression. This engaging history also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other it