Today in 1851, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations or The Great Exhibition, opened in London. It was the first in a series of World’s Fair exhibitions continuing to the present day.
Burton Benedict wrote in The Anthropology of World’s Fairs:
The Great exhibition, like the many international expositions or world’s fairs that foll…
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