WORLD'S FAIRS AND THE SPANISH-AMERI...

WORLD'S FAIRS AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

When the United States' battleship Maine explod subordinate to mysterious circumstances while anchored in Havana Harbor forward the night of 15 February 1898 plans were already well underway for sum of two units world's fairs: the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, and the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo. With the declaration of war with Spain in the spring of that year, organizers of the Omaha exposition feared it would be delayed or canceled. That the exposition exhibited as scheduled, on 1 June 1898 apted at least one observer to