World's Fair: Wings of a Century

Datecirca 1933

Can DescriptionsNHF viewing notes: Educational/cultural work showing fair exhibits that reenact different periods of American transportation history. Begins 'Kaufman and Fabry Present World's Fair: Wings of a Century.' World's Fair scenes. Title: 'Wilderness pathfinders and early settlers 1700-1800.' Indians and men in coon skin caps, people in wagons, horses. Title: 'Robert Fulton's Clermont 1807.' People in period costume. Steamboat. Titles: 'On the Erie Canal 1825.' 'The Baltimore's Clipper Ship 1825-1850.' 'The Parade of the iron Horse 1830-1867.' 'Inland Navigation 1830-1840.' 'Gold Rush of 1849.' 'The Union Pacific Railroad Spans the Continent 1869.' 'The Gay Nineties.' 'The Horseless carriage 1905-1925.' 'Conquest of the air by the Wright Brothers 1903.' 'Wings of a Century: the Lifeblood of the Nation 1934.' The final scene shows the automobile.