Slideshow: World's Fair Design and Architecture, Symbols of Solidarity
Learn more about the symbolic, unifying structures that have symbolized progress, development and technological achievement from past World's Fairs.
May 20, 2013
Up into the Space Needle the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW team went for a chat about World's Fair posters with expert Nicholas Lowry. With the Seattle, Washington, sky setting the stage, Nicho delved into the subtleties of these graphic treasures.
The poster on the left is from the 1939 World's Fair in New York featuring the Trylon and Perisphere; it is especially rare, valued between $2,500 and $3,500. The one on the right is an unofficial one from the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle and depicts the Space Needle and Pacific Science center, valued between $600 and $900.
Bringing science, technology, and future thinking together into one event, the World's Fair serves as a platform for getting in touch with what industries could become, what laws of physics they could defy.
ROADSHOW Reaches a Higher Altitude - Up into the Space Needle the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW team went for a chat about World's Fair posters with expert Nicholas Lowry. With the Seattle, Washington, sky setting the stage, Nicho delved into the subtleties of these graphic treasures.
The poster on the left is from the 1939 World's Fair in New York featuring the Trylon and Perisphere; it is especially rare, valued between $2,500 and $3,500. The one on the right is an unofficial one from the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle and depicts the Space Needle and Pacific Science center, valued between $600 and $900.
Bringing science, technology, and future thinking together into one event, the World's Fair serves as a platform for getting in touch with what industries could become, what laws of physics they could defy.
Dylan Hayley Leavitt was ANTIQUES ROADSHOW's digital associate producer from 2012 to 2017.
