Materials Relating to Other Fairs, Celebrations and Events
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Orth, Edward J.
label: Collection Collector
content: Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization
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content: Edward J. Orth Memorial Archives of the New York World's Fair
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1851-2000, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0560, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consist of programs, maps, correspondence, official guides, view books, images, publications, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and ephemera created for and about world's fairs dating from 1851-2000.  There is a small amount of material about carnivals, the Olympic games, state fairs, the American Revolution bicentennial, and festivals. In addition, Orth also collected materials that discussed more than one fair or provided general information about them. Series is arranged into fifty subseries: Subseries 8.1: Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations/Crystal Palace Exhibition, 1851; Subseries 8.2, Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, 1853-1853; Subseries 8.3, International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine or Centennial International Exhibition, 1876; 
Subseries 8.4, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; Subseries 8.5, Exposition Internationale D'Anvers, Antwerp, Belgium; Subseries 8.6, Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, 1897; Subseries 8.7, Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, 1898; Subseries 8.8, Expositions, 1901; Subseries 8.9, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1906; Subseries 8.10, Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, 1907; Subseries 8.11: Alaska, Yukon, Pacific Exposition, 1909; Subseries 8.12, Panama-California Exposition, 1915-1916; Subseries 8.13, Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts, and Industries, 1918;  Subseries 8.14, Sesquicentennial Exposition, 1926; Subseries 8.15, Barcelona International Exposition, 1929;  Subseries 8.16, L'Exposition Coloniale, Paris, 1931; Subseries 8.17, Olympics, 1932; 
Subseries 8.18, A Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933; Subseries 8.19, Expositions, 1935; Subseries 8.20, Expositions, 1936; Subseries 8.21, Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, 1937; Subseries 8.22, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939
Subseries 8.23, Festival of Britain, Festival of Britain, London, United Kingdom, 1951; Subseries 8.24: Milan Fair, 1955; Subseries 8.25, Exposition Universelle et venti Internationale de Bruxelles, 1958;  Subseries 8.26, New York's World Fair, 1961-1965; Subseries 8.27, American National Exhibition, 1959; Subseries 8.28, Century 21 Exhibition, 1962; Subseries 8.29, International and Universal Exposition or Expo '67, 1967; Subseries 8.30, Long Beach, California Long Beach, California;  Subseries 8.31, HemisFair '68, 1968; Subseries 8.32, Expo '70, Japan World Exposition, 1970; Subseries 8.33, Expo 74, 1974; Subseries 8.34, Expo '75 or International Ocean Exposition, 1975; Subseries 8.35, American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976, 1976;  Subseries 8.36, Queens Bicentennial Festival, 1975-1976; 
Subseries 8.37, Expo 81; Subseries 8.38, Kobe Port Island Exposition or Portopia 81, 1981; Subseries 8.39, Knoxville International Energy Exposition or 1982 World's Fair, 1982; Subseries 8.40: Louisiana World Exposition, 1984; Subseries 8.41: Games of the XXIII Olympiad, 1984; Subseries 8.42: The International Exposition, Tsukuba, Japan or The International Science Technology Exposition, 1985; Subseries 8.43, Queens Festival, 1985; Subseries 8.44: Expo '86, 1986;  Subseries 8.45: World Expo '88, 1988;  
Subseries 8.46, Universal Exposition of Seville or Expo 92, 1992;  Subseries 8.47, Expo 2000, 2000; Subseries 8.48, Other Events and Celebrations, 1886-1989; Subseries 8.49, Combined Fairs, 1968-1994; and Subseries 8.50, General information about world's fairs, 1964-1980.