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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
Access:
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
Access:
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
Cars driving around track at the Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933-1934
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: 18th St. Bridge 5 (Folder 53)
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Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 18th St. Bridge 5 (1966)
Date:
1966
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
Residential and Industrial buildings, East Cullerton Street
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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.
Date:
1980
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: 18th St. Bridge 5 (Folder 55)
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Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 18th St. Bridge 5 (1966)
Date:
1966
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
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
World's largest automobile at the Studebaker exhibit
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Tourists posing in the car they drove from New Orleans to the Fair
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Left to right are: Michael S. Silvestri, Office L.C. Segele, Gasper A. Silvestri, Gasper J. Silvestri, and Charles A. Dupaquier.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Concept drawing for the Ford Building
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Chrysler Motors Building at night
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Date:
1933-1934
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
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: 18th St. Bridge 5 (Folder 56)
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Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 18th St. Bridge 5 (1966)
Date:
1966
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
Evening traffic along Columbus Drive.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The General Motors exhibit at A Century of Progress.
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The main exhibit featured a display of automotive parts and an assembly room where 1,000 people at a time can watch an automobile being manufactured.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
First Plymouth car turned in for one millionth Plymouth car
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Young woman sitting on hood of a 1934 Chevrolet
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
American Bank Note Company Building
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View of the front of the American Bank Note Company building (118-132 East Cullerton Street), at the northwest corner of the intersection with South Indiana Avenue.
Date:
1980; 1902 (American Bank Note Company Building)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Woman in period costume standing next to a Ford Model T
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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
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
Chrysler Motors building exterior
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Houses, South State Street
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View of newly-built single-family houses on the west side of South State Street, south of West Roosevelt Road. Part of 1250 South State Street is visible at the far left.
Date:
1995
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
The Ford Motor Company exhibit at the Century of Progress International Exhibition.
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Date:
1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
1898 model automobile built by the Duryea Motor Wagon Company
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Duryea began manufacturing automobiles in 1895 and was the first American company to build gasoline-powered vehicle in the United States.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The Chrysler Motors compound
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Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The Hupmobile exhibit at A Century of Progress International Exposition, ca. 1933-1934.
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The exhibit here displays the interior of the vehicle, allowing patrons to see the frame and engine clearly. The Hupmobile was manufactured by the Hupp Motor Company of Detroit, founded by Craig and Louis Hupp in 1908. Hupp Motors manufactured automobiles from 1909 to 1940, when the company went out of business.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Studebaker's 'year ahead model' dedicatory ceremonies of the company's exhibit in the Travel and Transport building
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Purdue University students receiving instruction on combustion engines in the Chevrolet division of the General Motors exhibit
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: 18th St. Bridge 2 (Folder 52)
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Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 18th St. Bridge 2 (1966)
Date:
1966
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
Chauffeurs standing next to their automobiles in front of the Century of Progress Hall of Science
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Date:
1932
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Henry Sheldon christens 'A Century of Progress Ranger'
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Young couple work on the Chevrolet Assembly line
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Chrysler Motors building at night
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Donnelley Hall and McCormick Inn hotel
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View of Donnelly Hall (demolished) from west of South Calumet Avenue, north of East 24th Street. The high-rise McCormick Inn hotel (451 East 23rd Street, demolished 1993) is visible behind Donnelley Hall.
Date:
1984
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access

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Geographic Location: Near South Side (Chicago, Ill.)   Subject Topic: Automobiles   Remove all  

9 Exhibitions 8 Exhibition buildings 4 Cities and towns 4 Streets 3 Architecture 3 Buildings 3 Driveways 3 Signs and signboards 2 Automobile racing 2 Basements 2 Chevrolet automobile 2 Commercial art 2 Concrete masonry 2 Concrete walls 2 Dwarfs (Persons) 2 Floors, Concrete 2 Industrial buildings 2 Parking lots 2 Railroad cars 2 Refuse and refuse disposal 2 Rites and ceremonies 2 Trucks 2 Warehouses 1 Advertising 1 Apartment houses 1 Automobile graveyards 1 Automobiles, Steam 1 Automobiles--Models 1 Beauty contestants 1 Boilers 1 Brick walls 1 Bricks 1 Building 1 Building, Brick 1 Buildings--Remodeling for other use 1 Buses 1 Ceilings 1 Chauffeurs 1 Chrysler automobile 1 Coal-tar products 1 Columns, Concrete 1 Community development, Urban 1 Concrete 1 Concrete beams 1 Construction Industry 1 Containers 1 Contests 1 Crowds 1 Dampness in basements 1 Dampness in buildings 1 Docks 1 Doorways 1 Drainage pipes 1 Drums (Containers) 1 Electric cables 1 Electric circuit-breakers 1 Electric conductors 1 Electric light fixtures 1 Electric lighting 1 Electric meters 1 Electric power systems 1 Electric wiring 1 Engines 1 Factories 1 Factories--Location 1 Factories--Restrooms 1 Fairs 1 Fire hose 1 Garage doors 1 Garages 1 Gas cylinders--Storage 1 Globes 1 Gravel 1 Heating-pipes 1 Historical reenactments 1 Housing, Single family 1 Landscape architecture 1 Lighting 1 Loading and unloading 1 Lockers 1 Metal containers 1 Metal doors 1 Movable bridges 1 Parking garages 1 Pavements 1 Pavements, Concrete 1 Pedestrians 1 Plank roads 1 Plymouth automobile 1 Power-plants 1 Public buildings--Restrooms 1 Racetracks (Automobile racing) 1 Radiators 1 Railroad tracks 1 Reinforced concrete--Corrosion 1 Reinforcing bars 1 Restaurants 1 Roof drainage 1 Roof gutters 1 Salt boxes 1 Seepage 1 Stairs 1 Steam-engines 1 Steam-heating 1 Steel I-beams 1 Storage facilities 1 Street-railroads 1 Studebaker automobile 1 Tires 1 Tourism 1 Traffic flow 1 Traffic regulations 1 Traffic safety 1 Truck trailers 1 Tunnels 1 Utility meters 1 Vacant lands 1 Warnings 1 Water-pipes--Valves 1 Windows 1 Women 1 Wooden beams 1 Wooden doors 1 Wooden fences 1 Wooden stairs