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Language: en
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Pages: 128
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-02 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
It took six years and cost $100 million, but on May 27, 1933, the gates swung open on the biggest birthday party the city of Chicago had ever seen. The Century
Language: en
Pages: 270
Pages: 270
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-06 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers
Language: en
Pages: 357
Pages: 357
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher:
From the summer of 1933 to the fall of 1934, more than 38 million fairgoers visited a 3-mile stretch along Lake Michigan, home to Chicago's second World's Fair.
Language: en
Pages: 281
Pages: 281
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of pro
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Two landmark World's Fairs, 1933 in Chicago and 1939 in New York, remembered by their souvenirs and promotional items. Tour each, see the thrilling Skyride of 1