Sixty years after Seattle’s Century 21 Exposition, world’s fairs have largely fallen out of fashion in the U.S. Grant Wong - Historian, University of South Carolina Sixty years ago, the “World of ...
The Seattle World’s Fair ran for six months 60 years ago. By most assessments the Century 21 Exposition (its official name) was a grand success: nearly 10 million visitors, 24 nations participating ...
In a way, Seattle has a permanent piece of the paleo-future. The always amazing blog BibliOdyssey has a great post titled Century 21 Exposition. It features proposed designs for the Space Needle and ...
Two days after the monorail was christened in Seattle, the fair billed as Century 21 Exposition — which opened 59 years ago Wednesday — represented 59 countries underneath the shadow of the newly ...
Caption title: A United States world exposition at Seattle: nineteen sixty two. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Souvenir button from 1962's Century ...
The Seattle World’s Fair of 1962 brought us Seattle’s most iconic structure, the Space Needle. Also known as the Century 21 Exposition there is much to examine for those interested in the paleo-future ...