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Construction of the Gazebo for the Enchanted Island exhibit

1933

Construction of a giant toy wagon in preparation for the Enchanted Island exhibit

The photo was taken in March of 1933, a few months before the grand opening of the Fair.

1933

Construction of the children's theater for the Enchanted Island exhibit at A Century of Progress.

1933

Entrance of Electrical Group building.

A close up view of one of the entrances of the Electrical Group building at A Century of Progress International Exposition in early 1933, a few months before the opening of Fair.

1933

Fair officials with last millionth visitor on the last day of the World's Fair

1933

Dr. Henry Balfour, director of the Pitts River Museum of Oxford University, visiting the fair

1933

Brother and sister reunite at the Chicago World's Fair

1933

Children visiting the fair

1933

Harvey Firestone presents a farmer with a complete set of tractor wheels and tires at the Fair

1933

International commercial schools contest award recipients

E.W. Harrison, teacher in the school received the award from Col. Robert Isham Randolph. To the right is Violet Molner, Cleveland, who won first place in the amateur shorthand event for high schools.

1933

Winner in the International Schools contest first place amateur bookkeeping for business

1934

Woman wearing the modern costume of Turkish women

1933

Employees of the Milky Way Company at the Court theater inspecting the television apparatus at the television exhibition

1933

Gloria Swanson looks up at the Skyride

1934

Drum and bugle corps of the Calumet City American Legion leadparade of the parishioners of St. Andrew's Roman Catholic church

1933

Century of Progress Spanish Village exhibit.

1933

Spanish entertainers being received at the fair

1933

Veterans of the Spanish American war took part in the Philippine Veterans Day

1933

Southern Illinois Beauty Queens at the Century of Progress.

1933

A monkey from the Frank Buck Jungle Camp to be given as a door prize with T.A. Loveland, manager of the Jungle Camp

1933

Beauty contest winner with famous swimmers

1933

Children feasting on the world's largest ham sandwich

1933

Brother and sister reunite at the Chicago World's Fair

1933

Boys examining the Rapid Transit exhibit in the Hall of Science

1933

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

Governor and Mrs. Guy B. Parks of Missouri view exhibit of cave deposits in the Court of States

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

Chicago orphans visit the World's Fair

1933

Neanderthal woman in the "World A Million Years Ago" exhibit

1933

A young fair visitor

1933

Elinor Huesman chosen for the title of Miss Century of Progress

1933

Major Chester L. Fordney, United States Marine Reserve Corps, welcomes the Michigan Blossom queen and her court to the new World's Fair.

1933

Members of the committee planning Mexico Day to be held at A Century of Progress

1933

Reproduction of one of the Mayan temples, buildings of the Monjas, or Nunnery, at Uxmal, Yucatan

1933

Two of the contestants who entered in the 'Parade of the Masques' contest

1933

Sculpture of 'Man Combating Ignorance' on the North approach of the Hall of Science

1934

Construction of the General Exhibits Building

1933

The Monforte Sisters (the four women playing the instruments standing towards the rear left) perform at the Century of Progress Italian Village.

1933

Man in Bedouin clothes at the Century of Progress Foreign Villages exhibit.

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