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Author: Texas Centennial Commission. Official Centennial Housing Corporation
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Category : Texas Centennial
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Texas Centennial Commission. Official Centennial Housing Corporation
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Category : Texas Centennial
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Jim Parsons
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
ISBN: 9780875655017
Category : Art deco
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Fair Park Deco is a fascinating tour of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Like every American exposition in the 1930s, it began in economic depression. Although its economy had been buoyed by major oil discoveries in the early '30s, Texas agriculture was hard hit by the Great Depression. By the middle of the decade, state officials had set their sights on a great centennial celebration to help stimulate the economy and attract tourist dollars. "If during the next six months the people of the state could become filled with the idea of holding a big celebration on the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of Texas independence," the state's centennial commission speculated in July, 1934, "it would have the effect of creating a general forward-looking spirit through the state. It would be more stimulating than anything we can think of, and this effect would be immediate." This book focuses specifically on the Art Deco art and architecture of Fair Park--the public spaces, buildings, sculptures and murals that were designed for the 1936 exposition. Most of the chapters in the book represent different areas of Fair Park, with buildings and artwork effectively arranged in the same order that a visitor to the Texas Centennial Exposition might have seen them. The art and architecture are featured in original photography by Jim Parsons and David Bush as well as in historic photographs. Fair Park is one of the finest collections of Deco architecture in the country, but it is so much more: the embodiment of Texan swagger, it is a testament to the Texanic task of creating a dazzling spectacle in the darkest days of the Depression.
Author: Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Texas Centennial
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Boyce House
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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Author: Dallas (Tex.). Texas Centennial Central Exposition
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: Texas Centennial Commission
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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Author: Ralph Abraham Selle
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: Texas Centennial of Statehood Commission
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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