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1933 Chicago World Fair

Postcards -> Exposition -> 1933 Chicago World Fair

	Title: Administration Building Linen unused			Title: Administration Building Linen unused Description: Official headquarters for the Exposition Staff, is actually the experimental laboratory for 'A Century of progress."

	Title: Alpine Garden Linen unused			Title: Altar In Chinese Lama Temple Linen unused

	Title: Avenue Of Flags Linen unused Description: Chicago World's Fair. Looking southward showing the Hall of Science in the background			Title: Beautiful Federal Building At Night Linen unused Description: Chicago World's Fair. The three fluted towers represent the three branches of our Federal Government, Executive, Judicial and Legislative. The sides of the triangles are the Halls of Thirty States, whose flags and shields join with the interior court an outstanding accomplishment in modern architecture.


	Title: Belgian Village - 1933 Chicago Exposition Linen PM 1948 Description: Ancient Belgium has been brought to A Century of Progress and reproduced in the Belgian Village a duplicate of the historic Church of St. Nicholas in Antwerp is there and seventeenth century burghers guard the portals			Title: Black Forest Linen unused Description: Here is shown a typical German village, snow covered roofs with snow covered mountains in the background.

	Title: Black Forest Chicago World's Fair Linen unused Description: Here is shown a typical German village, snow covered roofs with snow covered mountains in the background.			Title: Café De La Paix Streets Of Paris Linen unused

	Title: Carillon Tower Belgian Village Linen unused			Title: Chinese Lama Temple Linen unused

	Title: Chrysler Building By Night Linen unused Description: One of the attractive structures at the Century of Progress. Every detail of the construction of Chrysler automobile is here demonstrated, as well as the testing of material used and of the completed car.			Title: Chrysler Building By Night Linen unused Description: One of the attractive structures at the Century of Progress. Every detail of the construction of a Chrysler automobile is here demonstrated, as well as testing of material used and of the completed car.

	Title: Court Of Electrical Group Linen unused Description: A century of progress Chicago's 1933 International Exposition			Title: Court Of The Electrical Building Linen unused Description: A century of progress

	Title: Court Of The Electrical Building Linen unused			Title: Dairy Building Linen PM 1933 Jun-23 Description: Displaying most modern dairy equipments such as: Automatic milking machinery, cream separators, ice cream and butter making machinery, laboratory equipment etc.

	Title: Detail Federal Building Linen unused Description: A century of progress			Title: Electrical Building Full Illumination Linen unused

	Title: Electrical Group By Night, Chicago World's Fair unused Description: Showing a small section of the Electrical Group, which consists of three sections located on Northerly Island. Housed in the Electrical Group is Radio Hall where may be seen radios from the earliest stages to the present day receiving sets			Title: Enchanted Island Linen unused

	Title: Enchanted Island 1933 Chicago World's Fair Linen PM 1933 Description: Enchanted Island by night a playground for children Chicago World's Fair. Here are old time and new amusement devices for children. Here young people can spend hours of pleasure while their folks visit the many hibits of the Fair			Title: Entrance - Hall Of Religion Linen unused

	Title: Firestone Tires PM 1933 Description: The Firestone singing color fountain and multi-plane shadow sign. Only installations of their kind in the world. A century of progress. Beneath the misty fountain domes is a battery of colored lights. As the music fills the garden, the varying wave lengths come in contact with delicate mechanism, which connects the colored lights. The result is an ever-changing array of beautiful color combinations playing upon the fountains in perfect harmony with the music. The Firestone multi-color shadow sign is constructed of shadow planes behind which are thousands of incandescent bulbs, reflecting an ever-changing combination of beautiful pastel shades of blue, green, orange and yellow			Title: Fireworks Display Linen unused Description: A view from Northerly Island. Never in the history of pyrotechnics have such fascinating and colorful displays been created as are used at the Century of Progress. The fireworks displays are an interesting nightly feature

	Title: General Exhibits Building Linen unused Description: Entrance Tower. Chicago World Fair			Title: General Exhibits Building Linen unused

	Title: General Houses Inc. House Linen unused Description: Chicago World's Fair			Title: Ggeneral Motors Building "A Century of Progress" Linen unused

	Title: Hall Of Religion Linen unused			Title: Hall Of Religion From Board Walk Linen unused

	Title: Hall Of Religion From Lagoon Linen unused			Title: Hall Of Science Linen unused

	Title: Hall Of Science And Electrical Group From Skyride Linen unused			Title: Hall Of Science At Night Linen unused

	Title: Havoline Thermometer Linen unused Description: Country of Progress International Exposition Chicago 1933. World's Tallest Thermometer. Twenty-one stories (218 ft.) high Shows temperature by neon light tubes. Sponsored by Indian Refining Company, Lawrenceville, Ill. Makers of Waxfree Havoline Motor Oil - best for all cars, winter or summer, because it contains no wax. Wax turns candle-hard with cold, water-thin with heat. Keep wax out of year motor! Waxfree Havoline Motor Oil is sold at a Texaco Stations.			Title: Illinois Host Building Linen unused Description: A century of progress

	Title: Illinois Host Building Linen unused			Title: Illinois Host House Linen PM 1933 Description: Headquarters for the citizens of Illinois and Official guests of the State. It is located next to the Sears roebuck Building. Just south of the northwest entrance to the Fair

	Title: Intra Mural Bus Chicago World's Fair Linen unused Description: Within the grounds of the Exposition, visitors are transported by a fleet of semi-trailer type open buses, which accommodate 15,000 to 20,000 passengers per hour.			Title: Intra-Mural Bus Linen PM 1933 Description: Intra-Mural Bus with hall of science in background, Chicago World's Fair. Within the grounds of the Exposition, visitors are transported by a fleet of sixty semi-trailer 20,000 passengers per hour.

	Title: Japanese Garden And Pavilion Linen unused			Title: Lagoon And Island From Boardwalk Linen unused

	Title: Lagoon And Island From Skyride Linen unused			Title: Lama Temple Night Scene Linen unused Description: A Century of Progress Chicago's 1934 International Exposition The Oriental splendors enjoyed by the old Manchu Emperors never approached the magnificence of the Lama Temple by night at the World's Fair

	Title: Market Place Of Belgian Village And The Folk Dancers Linen unused Description: The Belgian Village is at Twenty-third Street and Lief Erickson Drive, and portrays Belgium of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period. In the center of the village is a market place where folk dances are held. The buildings are full replicas of architecture four centuries old, except that of the fish market of Ghent, which dates back to 1650. Included are the gateway of Ostend, built in 1400, a city gate of mediaeval Bruges, and a French Gothic Church in Antwerp.			Title: Merrie England Linen PM 1938 Description: One of the largest of the villages, it truly typifies old English life in all its grandeur.

	Title: Murals - General Electric Company Exhibit Linen unused			Title: Murals General Electric Company Exhibit Linen unused Description: A century of progress

	Title: Northerly Isle From The Lagoon Linen unused			Title: Nunnery Of Uxmal Maya Temple Linen unused

	Title: Old Heidelberg Linen unused Description: Seating thirty-five hundred persons, this restaurant is a replica of the Old Heidelberg Inn located in Heidelberg. Germany noted for its food and beer the world over.			Title: Oriental Village .Chicago World'S Fair Linen PM 1933 Description: Being all the glamour and romance of the Near East to the Midway of the Fair.Here native magicians,dancing girls,vendore,horsemen will mingle with animal brought from their native lands for exposition at the Fair

	Title: Owens Illinois Glass Block Building Linen unused Description: This is the first full-sized structure built of glass block, recently perfected by the Owens-Illinois glass Company, Toledo, Ohio. One hundred feet long and sixty feet wide with a gloriously colorful tower fifty feet high, it is a wonderful spectacle by day and a magnificent display by night when interior lighting glows through its many-colored walls and tower. The Owens-Illinois Glass Company is one of the world's largest producers of glass containers and other glass products, which form one of the interesting exhibits inside the building.			Title: Pylons - Hall Of Social Science Linen unused

	Title: Side View Agricultural Building Linen unused Description: A century of progress			Title: Sixteenth Street Bridge Linen PM 1934 Description: Sixteenth Street Bridge Connecting the mainland with Northerly island and on which is located the Armour Co. and Hiram Walker Exhibit.

	Title: Swiss Village Linen unused Description: Here is shown a typical village in its natural settings filled with interesting exhibits of industry and arts typical to this country			Title: The Dinosaur - Sinclair Exhibit Linen unused

	Title: The Japanese Pavilion Linen PM 1933 Description: The Japanese Pavilion A typical example of Japanese architecture. An army of workmen came over from Japan, bringing their own tools and materials to construct these buildings. Here are housed fine examples of Japanese china, cloisonné, embroideries, silk work and world-famous Japanese handicraft. A typical Japanese tea garden is one of the features of this unusual display. Chicago World's Fair, 1933.			Title: The Midway Linen unused

	Title: The Old Mill - Horticulture Gardens Linen unused			Title: The Skyride - thrill ride of a century of progress exposition Chicago Illinois (IL) PM 1934 Description: Otis Elevator Exhibit The highest at the fair The Machines that operate skyride's high-speed otis elevators SKYRIDE'S twin steel towers are 628 feet high and three-eighths of a mile apart. The trip to the tops of the towers takes less than one minute in Otis Automatic High-Speed Elevators

	Title: The Strawman Enchanted Island Linen unused			Title: The Swedish Pavilion Linen unused

	Title: The Swedish Pavilion - At Night Linen unused			Title: Three Fluted Towers Linen unused Description: Three Fluted Towers Around Dome of Federal Building Chicago World's Fair. These three fluted towers 150 feet high around the dome of the Federal Building represent the three branches of Government - administrative, legislative and executive. The towers are illuminated at night.

	Title: Travel And Transport Building Linen unused Description: Chicago World's Fair This building is nearly 1,000 feet long, and offers some new concepts in architecture never before attempted. The dome of the Travel and Transport Building houses the railroad exhibit at "A Century of Progress".			Title: Travel And Transport Building Linen unused

	Title: Travel Building Linen PM 1933 Description: A Century of Progress. Chicago's 1933 international exposition			Title: Upper Court Hall Of Science Linen unused

	Title: Victor Vienna Garden Café Linen unused

Total: 73 Items