During the most devastating financial crisis our country has ever faced — The Great Depression — Chicago held a huge, extravagant event. The Elmhurst History Museum captures that 1933-34 World’s Fair ...

Photographer and teacher Walter Plotnik has been melding images of the 1939 World's Fair with 1930s circus performers, using a hybrid of wet photography and digital processes.

Subject 1939 New York World's Fair Catalogue Status Research in Progress Description Long dark hall viewed in perspective with recessed lighting in ceiling recessed aisles below the two lateral walls.

A World’s Fair brought the nations of the globe together for a celebration of culture, technology and commerce. Like the Olympics, cities and countries would lobby and fight for the opportunity to ...

Visitors to General Motors' "Highways and Horizons" Pavilion at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair were given these pins reading "I Have Seen the Future" after riding the exhibit's "Futurama" ...

Bernard Goldberg Fine Art brings a rare, long-lost Rockwell Kent mural from the 1939 World's Fair to New York's Salon Art + Design fair.

The 1939 New York World's Fair brought one of the strangest concept cars ever built -- a Pontiac with a transparent body, lableled the "Ghost Car." ...

Eagle Archives, Aug. 5, 1939: Berkshire County turtle racing fans protest the outcome of the World's Fair race, claiming their turtle "Crusader" unfairly lost to a doped rival.