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  1. WORLD'S FAIR FROM 1851 – 1900 TEXT WIKIPEDIA

  2. THE GREAT EXHIBITION, LONDON 1851 The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations or The Great Exhibition, sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held, was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century, and it was a much anticipated event.

  3. View from the Knightsbridge Road of The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for Grand International Exhibition of 1851. Dedicated to the Royal Commissioners., London: Read & Co. Engravers & Printers, 1851.

  4. The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in 1851.

  5. Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in 1851.

  6. The enormous Crystal Palace went from plans to grand opening in just nine months.

  7. Exhibition interior

  8. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE (1855), PARIS The Exposition Universelle of 1855 was an International Exhibition held on the Champs-Élysées in Paris from 15 May to 15 November 1855. Its full official title was the Exposition Universelle des produits de l'Agriculture, de l'Industrie et des Beaux-Arts de Paris 1855. Today the exposition's sole physical remnant is the Théâtre du Rond-Point des Champs- Élysées designed by architect Gabriel Davioud, which originally housed the Panorama National.

  9. Palais d'Industrie, Paris World's Fair 1855 Image source. Retrieved 2 Aug 2013. Archived from the original on 22 Aug 2012.

  10. 1862 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, LONDON The International of 1862, or Great London Exposition, was a world's fair. It was held from 1 May to 1 November 1862, beside the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, London, England, on a site that now houses museums including the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum (London).

  11. Panoramic view of the International Exhibition of 1862 in South Kensington, London

  12. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE (1867), PARIS The International Exposition of 1867 (French: Exposition universelle [d'art et d'industrie] de 1867), was the second world's fair to be held in Paris, from 1 April to 3 November 1867. Forty two nations[contradictory] were represented at the fair. Following a decree of Emperor Napoleon III, the exposition was prepared as early as 1864, in the midst of the renovation of Paris, marking the culmination of the Second French Empire. Visitors included Tsar Alexander II of Russia, a brother of the emperor of Japan, Kaiser Wilhelm and Otto von Bismarck of Prussia, Prince Metternich and Franz Josef of Austria, Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz, and the Khedive of Egypt Isma'il

  13. Official bird's-eye view of Exposition Universelle of 1867.

  14. Napoleon III receives the rulers and illustrious men who visited the 'Exposition universelle of 1867".

  15. 1873 VIENNAWORLD'S FAIR Weltausstellung 1873 Wien (English: World Exposition 1873 Vienna) was the large world exposition that was held in 1873 in the Austria-Hungarian capital of Vienna. Its motto was Kultur und Erziehung (English: Culture and Education). There were almost 26,000 exhibitors housed in different buildings that were erected for this exposition, including the Rotunde (English: Rotunda), a large circular building in the great park of Prater designed by the Scottish engineer John Scott Russell. The Rotunde was destroyed by fire on 17 September 1937. The Russian pavilion had a naval section designed by Viktor Hartmann. Exhibits included models of the Port of Rijeka and the Illés Relief model of Jerusalem

  16. Main entrance to the fair with the Rotunde behind

  17. CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, WELLINGTON The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. Officially named the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine, it was held in Fairmount Park along the Schuylkill River on fairgrounds designed by Herman J. Schwarzmann. Nearly 10 million visitors attended the exhibition and thirty-seven countries participated in it.

  18. Opening day ceremonies at the Centennial Exhibition

  19. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE (1878)THE THIRD PARIS WORLD'S FAIR, CALLED AN EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE IN FRENCH, WAS HELD FROM 1 MAY THROUGH TO 10 NOVEMBER 1878. IT CELEBRATED THE RECOVERY OF FRANCE AFTER THE 1870–71 FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR.

  20. The Palais du Trocadéro in Paris, built for the 1878 World’s Fair, around 1867.

  21. Aerial view of the Exposition Universelle of 1878

  22. Interior of the Palais de l'Industrie

  23. MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (1880) The Melbourne International Exhibition is the eighth World's fair officially recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) and the first official World's Fair in the Southern Hemisphere.

  24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_International_Exhibition_(1880)#/media/File:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_International_Exhibition_(1880)#/media/File: Melbourneroyalexhibitionbuilding1888.jpg Preparations for the exhibition

  25. 1888 BARCELONA UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION The 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition (in Catalan: Exposició Universal de Barcelona and Exposición Universal de Barcelona in Spanish) was Spain's first International World's Fair and ran from May 20 to December 9, 1888. It was also the first of the two held in Barcelona (the second one being in 1929).

  26. Pavilions in the Parc de la Ciutadella

  27. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE (1889), PARIS The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 6 May to 31 October 1889. It was held during the year of the 100th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, an event considered symbolic of the beginning of the French Revolution. The fair included a reconstruction of the Bastille and its surrounding neighborhood, but with the interior courtyard covered with a blue ceiling decorated with fleur-de-lys and used as a ball room and gathering place. The 1889 Exposition covered a total area of 0.96 km2, including the Champ de Mars, the Trocadéro, the quai d'Orsay, a part of the Seine and the Invalides esplanade. Transport around the Exposition was partly provided by a 3 kilometre (1.9 mi) 600 millimetre (2 ft 0 in) gauge railway by Decauville. It was claimed that the railway carried 6,342,446 visitors in just six months of operation. Some of the locomotives used on this line later saw service on the Chemins de Fer du Calvados

  28. WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO, 1893 The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, the large water pool, represented the long voyage Columbus took to the New World. Chicago bested New York City; Washington, D.C.; and St. Louis for the honor of hosting the fair. The Exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on architecture, sanitation, the arts, Chicago's self-image, and American industrial optimism.

  29. BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION (1897) The Brussels International Exposition (Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles) of 1897 was a World's fair held in Brussels, Belgium, from May 10, 1897 through November 8, 1897. There were 27 participating countries, and an estimated attendance of 7.8 million people. The main venues of the fair were the Cinquantenaire Parks and a colonial section at Tervuren showcasing King Leopold II of Belgium's personal property, the Congo Free State. The two exposition sites were linked by a purpose-built tramway.

  30. Exposition internationale, Bruxelles, 1897

  31. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE (1900), PARIS The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. The style that was universally present in the Exposition was Art Nouveau. The fair, visited by nearly 50 million, displayed many machines, inventions, and architecture that are now nearly universally known, including the Grande Roue de Paris Ferris wheel, Russian nesting dolls, diesel engines, talking films, escalators, and the telegraphone (the first magnetic audio recorder).

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