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Dennis O' Shea, in glasses, pie-eating champion of the 1934 World's Fair
Third, second, and first place winners of the 1934 pie-eating contest.
1934

A happy group of visitors after their first day at the new World's Fair from York and York County Pennsylvania
The party, under the chaperonage of Glenn E. Bailey and J.W. Barwick, numbers 153, and is composed of 75 school children and 60 teachers. They already have visited all exhibit buildings, the Field Museum, Colonial Village, the Lama Temple and Fort Dearborn. They leave Friday for home, and are staying at Judson Court, University of Chicago.
1933


Birthday of the Infanta performance
A church pageant of Oscar Wilde's fairy tale The Birthday of the Infanta at Ford's Symphony Garden.
1933













Bronze Age Minoan cup
A Bronze Age Minoan cup, ca. 1530-1750 B.C.E. The drawing depicts a treaty ceremony involving soldiers and farmers. The soldiers are holding swords and wearing plumed hats, while the two farmers off to the right are carrying staffs and wearing bulkier clothing.
1933






Conception by Hugh Ferriss of how the Ford Exhibition building will look at night
The building is nine hundred feet long and ten stories in height at its center. It faces upon a five acre park fronting Lake Michigan. Albert Kahn of Detroit is the architect, and Walter Dorwin Teague of New York, the industrial designer, is in charge of the interior display.
1933











Artist's sketch of the Armour and Company building
The building features a glass-enclosed restaurant and the open air plaza in the front.
1933






Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: 18th St. Bridge 5 (Folder 53)
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 18th St. Bridge 5 (1966)
1966

Richard J. Daley greets President Gerald Ford as he arrives in Chicago
President Gerald Ford speaking with Mayor Richard J. Daley at Meigs Field upon his arrival in Chicago.
1974

Richard J. Daley meets President Gerald Ford as he arrives in Chicago
Mayor Richard J. Daley with President Gerald Ford upon his arrival in Chicago.
1974

Residential and Industrial buildings, East Cullerton Street
View looking southeast across South Indiana Avenue, from the intersection with East Cullerton Street. A parking lot is in the foreground at the southeast corner of the intersection, with the side of a nineteenth-century house at 213 East Cullerton behind it. Rising behind that is the Atwell Building (221 East Cullerton Street). Part of the R. R. Donnelley Printing Plant is visible in the distance on the far right.
1980

Industrial building, 18th Street and South Michigan Avenue
View looking along the north side of East 18th Street at a commercial building located at the northeast corner of the intersection of East 18th Street and South Michigan Avenue (1731-1737 South Michigan Avenue). A sign painted on the wall at the top of the building reads "Joyce Mfg. Co. Inc. Manufacturers of Quality Bedding".
1978

Near South Side lakefront with Burnham Harbor and Meigs Field
Aerial view of the Lake Michigan lakefront on the Near South Side, with Burnham Harbor and Meigs Field (now Northerly Island Park) visible. McCormick Place is visible in the distance beyond the harbor. CNA Plaza (333 South Wabash Avenue) is prominent in the left foreground.
1972