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An American Culture: World's Fairs and Expositionary Culture

General sites	1893 Columbian Exposition: White City	1939 New York World's Fair: World of Tomorrow
World's Fairs and International Expositions Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs World's Fairs: History Online World's Fairs International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and World's Fairs, 1851-1951: A Bibliography (Bibliography available as a pdf file from the web site of the Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, 1851-1940, California State University. Click here.) Further Suggested Reading	1893 World's Fair World's Columbian Exposition North Side: People: George Ferris CPL - Chicago's Front Door -The World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath Ida B. Wells, The Reason Why City Beautiful The Incorporation of America Pullman Strikes Henry Adams at the Fair Incorporation of America   Take a Trip around the Pan-American Exposition of 1901, from the Edison Collection of Motion Pictures. African-American Women at the World's Fair	New York World's Fair Images of the Fair New York World's Fair Links 1939-40 New York World's Fair New York World's Fair - 1939/1940 Photo Gallery of the Fair NYWF Images Drawing the Future: Design Drawings of the NYWF Iconography of Hope NY Times Clip
Also search these archives (for example use "World's Fair" or "Columbian Exposition" as search terms)	American Memory Making of America	Or, using Google, try Your Own Search

Worlds Fairs | 1930s This website is complementary to the seminar and gives access to online information related to this week's reading. Please bring one piece of primary source information - i.e an image, some text, an advertisement - to share at the seminar. We will talk about and contextualise these during the seminar. Bookmark the page so that you can easily return to it if you get lost. Don't forget to bookmark the sites which provide you with information for essays, as you must be able to cite them in the proper format (see the MLA Guide to Citing Internet Resources). Remember that quality can vary so view any site with critical awareness. Make your own search for more sites with the link provided below. Contact me at sue.currell@virgin.net with any questions relating to the seminar or website. Sue Currell.

Worlds Fairs | 1930s

Fragmented Dreams: Modernity and Cultural Politics in Thirties America

General sites	Writing and Literature	Photos and Art
New Deal Network America in the 1930s The Thirties - by Warren Susman Decade of the Thirties Survey Graphic in the 30s Brief overview of the WPA The Sacco-Vanzetti Case   Further Suggested Reading	Anthology of Thirties Prose New Deal Documents Proletarian Writers of the Thirties American Life Histories from the Federal Writers Project 1936-40 Selections from the Federal Theatre Project Power: A Living Newspaper Voices from the Dustbowl: Migrant Workers Florida folklife collection Southern folklife Federal Writer's Project: Slave Narratives Hurston's Mules and Men FDRs Fireside Chats	WPA Poster Collection Photos from the FSA-OWI New Deal Photography Documentary Photography in the 30s Walker Evans Great Depression: Online Photos A New Deal for Art Theories about Art in the 1930s A New Deal for the Arts - NARA Erskine Caldwell
Or, using Google, try Your Own Search	Also search these archives for a variety of materials and other media: American Memory National Archives Search Page: search for WPA Works Projects Administration, or FSA, AAA,FWP, etc to find hundreds of photos and documents. Making of America Radio TimeLines California Folk Recordings 30s Documentary Film Report of WPA Activities of the Golden Gate International Exposition Depression Songs 1930s Bestsellers	WPA Murals Norwalk's Collection of WPA Murals W.P.A. - New Deal Art During the GD WPA Period Print Collection - U. of Montana Lane Tech Art Collection: Federal Art Project WPA 1932-1943 WPA Art in Newark WPA Art at Oregon State Library New Deal Art Projects - MHS WPA Prints in Special Collections Dept of Interior WPA Murals Lane Tech Art Collection Oak Park Post office

 

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