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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Historical dictionary of world's fairs and expositions, 1851-1988
Publication Date: 1990

Guides to Resources

The Books of the Fairs: GUIDE by Smithsonian Institution Staff; Robert W. Rydell
Guide to microfilm collection of materials from Smithsonian Institutions (also available at OU Libraries)

Select Studies

All the World's a Fair by Robert W. Rydell
ISBN: 9780226732404
Publication Date: 1987
Empress San Francisco : the Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Abigail M. Markwyn
Publication Date: 2014
Gendering the fair: histories of women and gender at world's fairs by T. J. Boisseau (Editor); Abigail M. Markwyn (Editor); Robert Rydell (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2010
Health and medicine on display : international expositions in the United States, 1876-1904 by Julie K. Brown
Publication Date: 2009
Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840-1910 by Joe Kember (Editor); John Plunkett (Editor); Jill A. Sullivan
Publication Date: 2012