World's Fair | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

A World's Fair (also known as a world fair, world exposition, or universal exposition) is an international exhibition of art, design, engineering, and cultural practices that originated in 1851 with "The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. Other noteworthy fairs include the American Independence Exposition (Philadelphia, 1876), World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts (Paris, 1925), Century of Progress Exposition (Chicago, 1933), and Building the World of Tomorrow (New York, 1939).

Emily Schiller, Digital Collections Content Coordinator, 2015.

NOTES

This note was tagged #routed in June 2015 and Sue's revisions (in a Word doc created by ASG) have been applied to the note as of October 2015. As of January 2017 I am adding the #draft tag to this note so that it is harvested to Google Drive. Once I am sure that all pending TMS or Piction data entry is complete, I will remove the #routed tag, add the #complete tag, and move the Google Doc to Queta's folder so that it is not re-routed to Sue.

I rewrote this rule on 2/16/2017 to try and expand to objects that had world's fair-related terms entered in the title, public notes, or label copy fields. As of now this is linked to 20 notes (some ON and CCs) and 25 objects. I did not include the lines of the rule that applied to Art Deco since this was not a World's Fair.

For the sake of efficiency, I removed the possible image asset and linked to the illustration as a web resource.

I am using object photography to illustrate this CC, but the illustration tag can be changed in the future if it should be tagged with the accession number rather than the UMO to a specific image.

George Cruikshank, The Opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of All Nations, May 1, 1851 (1984.190.FA)

8835633: Image

Removing this tag as of March 14, 2017 because the illustration process described by Carlos means that this object's primary image will be treated as the CC's primary illustration based on the object number appearing first in the rule.

ASSOCIATED CONTENT CHUNKS

Texas Centennial Exposition and Art Exhibition (1936)

AUDIO ASSETS

Neil Harris, "The World on Display: America's Worlds Fairs," lecture given August 18, 2006, Dallas Museum of Art. Audio file: WorldsFairs_01.mp3. 12936593: UMO

(unedited transcript.)

VIDEO ASSETS

IMAGE ASSETS

WEB RESOURCES

The Transept from the Grand Entrance of the Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London, 1851~Get a feel for the grandeur of the first world's fair by looking at this souvenir lithograph in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection.
A Treasury of World's Fair Art & Architecture~Dive into the University of Maryland's digital collection of ephemera and visual material from thirty-five fairs and expositions.
ExpoMuseum~Visit this online museum for world's fairs from 1851 to 2025.
List of World's Expositions~Skim the list assembled on Wikipedia.
"You Owe Your Daily Routine to the World's Fairs"~Read Amanda Green's 2015 article for Popular Science to find out how commonplace products originated at world's fairs.

ARCHIVAL RESOURCES

Catalog from the exhibition, '1930's Expositions,' October 7-November 5, 1972, held by the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts at the New Dimensions Pavilion, State Fair of Texas. Includes: foreword, essays, list of artworks and artists in the exhibition, images, selected bibliography.

12712417: UMO

FUN FACTS

Here are a few of the sites and inventions introduced at world's fairs: the telephone and Heinz ketchup (both 1876), the Eiffel Tower (1889), the Ferris Wheel, Cream of Wheat, Juicy Fruit gum, and Pabst Beer (all 1893), the x-ray machine, electric typewriter, and air conditioning (all 1904).

TEACHING IDEAS

RULES

Set operator as OR

Apply to content where tag_value equals 300054778

apply to objects where number equals 1984.190.FA

apply to objects where label_copy contains world's fair

apply to objects where public_notes contains world's fair

apply to objects where title contains world's fair

apply to objects where label_copy contains international exposition

apply to objects where public_notes contains international exposition

apply to objects where title contains international exposition

apply to objects where label_copy contains World’s Columbian Exposition

apply to objects where public_notes contains World’s Columbian Exposition

apply to objects where title contains World's Columbian Exposition

apply to objects where label_copy contains Exposition Universelle

apply to objects where public_notes contains Exposition Universelle

apply to objects where title contains Exposition Universelle

apply to objects where label_copy contains Centennial Exposition

apply to objects where public_notes contains Centennial Exposition

apply to objects where title contains Centennial Exposition