World's fair

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair) was the event of the century.

THE CITY OF WONDERS A SOUVENIR OF THE WORLD'S FAIR by Mary Catherine Crowley (1894)

in 1964, new york hosted the world’s fair – an event that served as a showcase for mid-century american culture and technology.

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair) was the event of the century.

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair) was the event of the century.

Structural pageantry and beauty are the architectural motifs of the spectacular Fair buildings that blend and vitalize America's prehistoric races... Aztec, Mayan, Incan... with Oriental lands of mystery... Cambodia, India, Cathay. A magic walled city of the pacific, the Fair will thrill the multitudes with mystic forms, giant pyramids, long pavilions of light and shadow, Towering skyward, the Exposition's Spire to the Sun translates mass into height, matches the breathless loom of the Bay…

Paul Goldberger visits Flushing Meadow Park, and goes inside the 1964 World’s Fair New York State Pavilion, which has been closed to the public for years.

"Ferris Wheel, and Bird's Eye View of Midway." Large photographic print from The White City (As It Was). Photographs by William Henry Jackson. World's Columbian Exposition. 1893. Digitial Identifier: GN90799d_JWH_006w World's Columbian Exposition Collection at The Field Museum

A century ago, touring the Paris world's fair, Henry Adams was extraordinarily prescient in predicting our current debate about ethics and technology.