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  5. The Vienna World’s Fair of 1873: Big Plans, not so big Results
  • Exploring Central European History: WI Director's Podcast
  • Lt. Commander Sir Georg von Trapp and Maria Kutschera: The Story behind the “Sound of Music”
  • Austro-Hungarians in Canada’s Internment Camps, 1914-1920. Part of a World-wide Story
  • The Vienna World’s Fair of 1873: Big Plans, not so big Results
  • Marie Antoinette was not Alone: Medieval and Early Modern Habsburg Marriage Diplomacy. The Women who left Home
  • Early Modern Climate Change: “The Little Ice Age” hits Central Europe
  • A Late Medieval Pandemic: The “Black Death” and the Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty

The Vienna World’s Fair of 1873: Big Plans, not so big Results

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Related Links:

The Metropolis Experiment: Vienna and the 1873 World Exhibition - Wien Museum

Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) - available in English 

Experiment Metropole : 1873 : Wien und die Weltausstellung - University of Alberta Library

"The Spanish element in our nationality" : Spain and America at the world's fairs and centennial celebrations, 1876-1915 - University of Alberta Library

World's Fair Am Digital Database - CCID required

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