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| Title: | The Washington, D.C. bid for the 1964 World's Fair |
| Author: | Huxtable, Ada Louise |
| Date: | 5/00/1960 |
Document Information
Bibliographic Metadata
| Author: | Huxtable, Ada Louise |
| Title: | The Washington, D.C. bid for the 1964 World's Fair |
| Date: | 5/00/1960 |
| Archive: | Special Collections, Gelman Library, George Washington University |
| Collection name: | the Greater Washington Board |
| Document location: | Box 233, Folder 7, "The World's Fair" |
| Publication location: | New York City, New York |
| Publisher: | American Heritage Publishing Company |
Descriptive Metadata
| Editorial notes: | |
| Description: | From 1929 to 1965, the Washington Board of Trade devoted much effort into attempting to become a host for a World's Fair. Washington, D.C. never hosted a World's Fair as every bid to land the fair for the city came up short. This is an article from the now defunct "Horizon - A Magazine of the Arts" on the proposal prepared by the Washington Board of Trade and presented to the three-man President's Commission charged with determining if and where the United States should have a World's Fair in 1964. The Board contracted renown architect and urban planner Victor Gruen to prepare a study on the proposed site. This article details the groundbreaking Gruen proposal. |
| Subjects: | the Greater Washington Board of Trade;; the 1964 World's Fair;; Largo, Maryland;; Victor Gruen;; urban planning;; the World's Fair;; Washington, D.C.;; city planning;; 20th Century Washington D.C. |
Technical Metadata
| Date scanned: | 3/6/2006 |
| Person scanning: | Craig Clarke |
| Date converted: | 3/6/2006 |
| Person converting: | Craig Clarke |
| Scanner used: | Fujitsu FI-4220C |
| OCR program: | PixEdit 7 Rev. 7.3.6 |
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