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Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
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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
Language: en
Pages: 373
Pages: 373
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-23 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Motivated by potentially turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "Master Builder"—broug
Language: en
Pages: 274
Pages: 274
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
As showcases of design, architecture, technology, industry and politics, world's fairs have served as overviews of society's accomplishments as well as baromete
Language: en
Pages: 270
Pages: 270
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-06 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers