Download or read book Important to Texas Centennial Visitors written by Texas Centennial Commission. Official Centennial Housing Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fair Park Deco written by Jim Parsons and published by Texas Christian University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Year America Discovered Texas written by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Texas Centennial Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Official Guide Book Texas Centennial Exposition June 6 Nov 29 1936 written by Dallas (Tex.). Texas Centennial Central Exposition and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Commemorating a hundred years of Texas history written by Texas Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Texas Commemorating a Century of Statehood written by Texas Centennial of Statehood Commission and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Here Comes Texas written by Ralph Abraham Selle and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selling the Texas Centennial to Texas written by Texas Centennial Commission. Publicity Committee and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monuments erected by the state of Texas to commemorate the centenary of Texas independance written by Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monuments Erected by the State of Texas to Commemorate the Centenary of Texas Independence written by Texas. Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Pictorial Parade of the Texas Centennial Celebration 1936 written by Texas. Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations and published by . This book was released on 1936* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monuments Commemorating the Centenary of Texas Independence written by Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebration and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Texas Centennial Roster 1836 1936 written by Texas Centennial Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: