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This beautifully bound, 300-page image rich commemorative book explores the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and its legacy. Written by local experts Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein of HistoryLink.org and commissioned for the 50th Anniversary of the Fair. -- Amazon.

This richly illustrated and well-researched volume chronicles the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held in Seattle in 1909. The 3.7 million visitors to the fair during its four-month run, on what was to become the University of Washington campus, beheld a cornucopia of exhibits housed in an astonishing collection of buildings and enjoyed the carnival-like - and sometimes controversial - entertainments of the Pay Streak midway. Starting with the Klondike...