ABSTRACT
From pickles to perfume, kudzu to Kindergarten, and bazaars to battleships, seemingly infinite international displays filled the many exhibition halls in supremely classified order over the fair’s six-month duration from May to November. Through the Centennial gatesopen daily, except Sundays-Philadelphia welcomed over ten million visitors from across the globe to this parade of achievement, the city’s significance abruptly shifting between its long-standing reputation as America’s “cradle of liberty,” and the site as a cosmopolitan experiment where participants gathered and exhibited by nation to share their successes with one another on the Centennial stage.
