EUROPEAN
STUDIES
WORLD'S FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS:
VISIONS OF TOMORROW
With coverage beginning in 1834 and with the pivotal Crystal Palace
Exhibition of 1851 in London, this digital collection allows users to explore
key cultural and technological progress that shaped contemporary
outlooks on life and reflected national identities. Titles include general
histories of international exhibitions, catalogs, commemorative
accounts, regional catalogs, exposition management publications, visitors'
guides, studies, lectures, technical reports, and descriptive accounts,
and promotional publications—in English, French German, Spanish,
Portuguese, and other Western languages.
This interdisciplinary collection offers researchers unique insight into
architecture, fine and decorative arts, technology, industrial design, history,
science, entertainment, politics, urban planning, medicine, manufacturing,
and more.
SMITHSONIAN COLLECTIONS ONLINE
DID YOU KNOW?
. . . that in the first 76 years following its establishment, the American Bible Society distributed
55,531,908 copies of the Bible around the world? At the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893,
they handed out a booklet with the verse John 3:16 translated into 242 unique languages.
American Bible Society, British and Foreign Bible Society, and World's Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill.).
Illustrations of the Different Languages and Dialects in Which the Holy Bible in Whole or in Part Has Been Printed & Circulated
by the American Bible Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society. [New York]: [American Bible Society], 1893.
Smithsonian Collections Online. Web. 25 July 2014.
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