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In October 2010, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., opened an exhibition titled Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s. [10] This exhibition, which was available for view until September 2011, prominently featured the Texas Centennial Exposition.
The library includes over 970,000 books, 19,000 maps, 93,500 photographs, 4,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 11,500 broadsides, and 50,000 items in other multimedia formats. Most of the sources are about Texas and Mexico, but also include items are also from the other Latin American countries, particularly: Central America, Chile, Peru, and Brazil.
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Central America. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
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After the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition exhibition a group of investors decided to retain some of the buildings and hold a second season at Kountze Park in 1899 with a new theme. [2] President McKinley expressed support for the exhibition as an opportunity to show America's new colonial possessions following the Spanish–American War. [2]
The map encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California". [1]