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Construction of the Gazebo for the Enchanted Island exhibit
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Date:
March 1, 1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Construction of a giant toy wagon in preparation for the Enchanted Island exhibit
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The photo was taken in March of 1933, a few months before the grand opening of the Fair.
Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Construction of the children's theater for the Enchanted Island exhibit at A Century of Progress.
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Date:
March 1, 1933
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
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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
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
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Public access
Century of Progress Spanish Village exhibit.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Spanish entertainers being received at the fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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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
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Public access
Neanderthal woman in the "World A Million Years Ago" exhibit
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Conception by Hugh Ferriss of how the Ford Exhibition building will look at night
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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.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Construction of Magic Mountain for the Enchanted Island exhibit at A Century of Progress
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Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
View of the Enchanted Island exhibit under construction in preparation for the Chicago World's Fair
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Enchanted Island was built between the lagoon and Lake Michigan, and included a mountainside slide, a fairy castle, a mechanical zoo, a miniature railroad, and a theater, among other exhibits.
Date:
March 1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Enchanted Isle during construction
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Construction of Magic Mountain for the Enchanted Island exhibit at A Century of Progress. The photo was taken in February of 1933, a few months before the grand opening of the Fair.
Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Edward H. Sniffen, Asst. Vice-President of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, signing contract for renewal of the company's exhibit
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
The Hupmobile exhibit at A Century of Progress International Exhibition, 1933-1934.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The Pullman train car exhibit at the Century of Progress International Exposition.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
General Motors Compound
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
General Motors Building
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Concept drawing for the Ford Building
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Chrysler Motors Building at night
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Photo of an architectural drawing of the Century of Progress Hawaiian Gardens exhibit, which featured a model of Mt. Kilauea volcano.
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The architectural firm that produced the drawing was Loebl, Schlossman & Demuth, a Chicago-based business that went on to design the Water Tower Place (1976) and the Prudential Plaza (1990).
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The International Harvester exhibit.
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The exhibit pictured here is a model binder twine machine, which was used to tie the top of a shock of wheat together for easier handling and transport. The International Harvester exhibit was located in the Travel and Transport building.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
General Motors Building
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
J.F. Sullivan, diamond export, points out a diamond
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J.F. Sullivan, diamond export from Kimberley, South Africa, points out a diamond that has become stuck on the grease table of the Diamond Recovery Plant in the Diamond Mine exhibit.
Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Drawing of electrically driven globe in 'Ford World' exhibit in New World's Fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The Venetian Carnival floating parade, held in the World's Fair Lagoon.
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
Three women in the Spanish Village at the World's Fair
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Three senoritas inspect the Spanish Village at the World's Fair.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Redressing Hall of Science for the New Fair
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
View of the grand stairway inside the Electrical Group building exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair
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The photo was taken in March of 1933 while the building was being prepared for the grand opening in May.
Date:
March 1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Early respirator, known as the Iron Lung
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The Johnson Outboard Motors and Boats exhibit.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Life-like prehistoric animals
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
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Public access
The Hupmobile exhibit at A Century of Progress International Exhibition, 1933-1934.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The Hupmobile exhibit at A Century of Progress International Exhibition, 1933-1934.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Models posed to show new beds in Union Pacific Pullman passenger cars.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Bullfighting demonstration in the Spanish Village
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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
The South Dakota exhibit at the Court of States.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. inspects a report at the International Business machines exhibit
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., son of the President, inspects a report at the International Business machines exhibit.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Diving demonstration at the Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933-1934.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Construction of the children's theater for the Enchanted Island exhibit
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Date:
February 1, 1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
View of the Enchanted Island exhibit under construction in preparation for the Chicago World's Fair
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Enchanted Island was built between the lagoon and Lake Michigan, and included a mountainside slide, a fairy castle, a mechanical zoo, a miniature railroad, and a theater, among other exhibits.
Date:
January 1933
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
It's 'curtains' for those familiar, old, green Pullman curtains.
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This photo posed to show the new arrangement in the all-aluminum streamlined Pullman Pacific train.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Fair beauty queen and Phil Baker try the latest in two-way telephone-television
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Three visitors from Switzerland admiring the reproductions at the Swiss Village
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Students from Tilden High school awaiting the opening of the microvivarium exhibit in the Hall of Science
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Mrs. Louisa Schmidt a 1876 Philadelphia Centennial employee visits World's Fair
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Dancers in costume at the Century of Progress Swiss Village.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
View of the Enchanted Island exhibit under construction in preparation for the Chicago World's Fair
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Enchanted Island was built between the lagoon and Lake Michigan, and included a mountainside slide, a fairy castle, a mechanical zoo, a miniature railroad, and a theater, among other exhibits.
Date:
January 1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access

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