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Four Years For A Fair: Issues, Actions And Activities Coincident And Connected To The Organization & Development Of The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 1905-1909, Eric Paul Anderson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Since the original American exposition, held in Philadelphia in 1876 commemorating the union's first centennial, a series of great fairs had been staged in the major cities of the country. Chicago and St. Louis were the leaders in size and success. Portland's Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1904 was financially successful if only regional in appeal and served as an inspiration and standard of comparison for the effort Seattle would make. The immediate predecessor to the Seattle fair--held at Jamestown, Virginia in 1907 as a tri-centennial celebration of that city's founding--was to have a great impact in the organization of …