National Fairground Archive

A Guide to Material on Expositions

This section of the website provides a guide to resources held in the NFA on World's Fairs and Expositions. The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the first of these type of events and they continue through to this day with some major events of great historical relevance. The NFA collects the various types of emphemera, souvenirs and official documentation associated with these events and catalogues these as unique collections by specific event. Complete indexes and an introductory text are listed below.

• Introduction to literature sources and ephemera from World's Fairs and Expositions
• Expositions and World's Fairs primary source collections guide
• Reading list of book materials in NFA