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View of the Electrical Group building from the Hall of Religion
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Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


View of the Electrical Group exhibition building from the Fair's showboat
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Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Entrance of Electrical Group building.
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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.
Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Exterior view of the right stairway in front of the main courtyard of the Electrical Group building
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The relief "Atomic Energy" by sculptor Ulric Henry Ellerhusen adorns the right facade of the building.
Date:
January 11, 1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Ornamental figure of a man breaking the ground with a shovel that adorned one of the sides of the Agricultural building.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Diorama of a Sumatran modern rubber plantation
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Diorama
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Humorous diorama depicting an old rickety village with dilapidated buildings and villagers and barnyard animals standing around an unpaved town square. The sign at the top of the diorama reads, "We don't ask you to live like this!! Look over our listing."
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


The engine to the right is a Corliss steam engine, built ca. 1884. The smaller engine on the left is a model of a turbine engine built by Swedish engineer Gustaf Patrik de Laval in 1884.
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Both the turbine and steam engine pictured here could generate approximately 75 HP of power.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


The Crane Company Station exhibit at A Century of Progress International Exposition.
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The exhibit featured a bus stop and cases displaying the latest in plumbing and heating accessories.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Bus parked behind a prototype to Henry Ford's popular Model T automobile
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Eighteenth-century boring machine
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


The Pope-Toledo steam-driven automobile.
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The model pictured here was designed ca. 1900.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Fair officials with last millionth visitor on the last day of the World's Fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Dr. Henry Balfour, director of the Pitts River Museum of Oxford University, visiting the fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Brother and sister reunite at the Chicago World's Fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Children visiting the fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Harvey Firestone presents a farmer with a complete set of tractor wheels and tires at the Fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Unknown man speaking at a press conference.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Press Club Banquet
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


International commercial schools contest award recipients
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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.
Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Winner in the International Schools contest first place amateur bookkeeping for business
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Woman wearing the modern costume of Turkish women
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Employees of the Milky Way Company at the Court theater inspecting the television apparatus at the television exhibition
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Tourist in the Swiss Village
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Gloria Swanson looks up at the Skyride
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Dancers visiting the fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Drum and bugle corps of the Calumet City American Legion leadparade of the parishioners of St. Andrew's Roman Catholic church
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


View of the Agriculture building
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Costumed bullfighters.
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A bullfighting demonstration, with two female matadors and two men inside a bull costume, at the Century of Progress Spanish Village.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Century of Progress Spanish Village exhibit.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Spanish entertainers being received at the fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Veterans of the Spanish American war took part in the Philippine Veterans Day
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Southern Illinois Beauty Queens at the Century of Progress.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Native American Indian at the South Dakota exhibit
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


A monkey from the Frank Buck Jungle Camp to be given as a door prize with T.A. Loveland, manager of the Jungle Camp
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Beauty contest winner with famous swimmers
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Children feasting on the world's largest ham sandwich
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access




The main entrance to the Century of Progress Streets of Paris exhibition.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Brother and sister reunite at the Chicago World's Fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Boys examining the Rapid Transit exhibit in the Hall of Science
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Part of the crowd who witnessed the first showing of 'Our Daily Bread,' King Vidor's latest picture based on the back-to-the-land movement.
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Amid all the glamour and excitement of a Hollywood premiere, the first international preview of a motion picture was held in the Lagoon theater at the World's Fair.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Dennis O' Shea, in glasses, pie-eating champion of the 1934 World's Fair
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Third, second, and first place winners of the 1934 pie-eating contest.
Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


The Midway at night
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


Tour group from Reading, Pennsylvania
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access


A happy group of visitors after their first day at the new World's Fair from York and York County Pennsylvania
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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.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Edward H. Whyte
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Superintendent of the California Parole Department, at the Central States Parole conference which was convened at Illinois Host House at the Century of Progress International Exposition in 1934.
Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Governor and Mrs. Guy B. Parks of Missouri view exhibit of cave deposits in the Court of States
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Firefighters parade during Chicago Day at the fair
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access