Warshaw collection of business Americana - world expositions
Series: Smithsonian collections online : world's fairs and expositions : visions of tomorrow; Smithsonian collections online : world's fairs and expositions : visions of tomorrow
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1851
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Art dealers; Advertising; Exhibitions; Pictorial works
Description: The Warshaw Collection of Business America - World Expositions, covers major fairs from the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, which celebrated "The Age of Steam" through the New York World's Fairs of 1939-1940, which proclaimed "A World for Tomorrow." Content types includes trade catalogs, guide books, souvenir books, catalogs, brochures, maps, lithographs, leaflets, tickets, advertising cards, postcards, commemorative stamps, and correspondence. Fairs include: Paris (1855); Lausanne (1857); Philadelphia (1876); Boston (1883); Chicago (1893); Bordeaux (1895); Omaha (1898); Philadelphia (1899); St. Louis (1904); Milan (1906); Albuquerque (1908); San Francisco (1915); and Chicago (1933).
Notes: Date range of documents: 1851-1940.

Includes manuscripts and photographs.

Reproduction of the originals from the National Museum of American History Archives Center.

English, French, Spanish, German and other languages.