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#World’s Fair Wednesday
It’s ‘curtains’ for those familiar, old, green Pullman curtains. They’re out. This photo posed to show the new arrangement in the flashing, 110-miles-an-hour, all-aluminum streamlined Pu...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Helena Rubenstein, international beauty authority, gets a glimpse of the beauty that is A Century of Progress through a window in the ultra-modernistic Trustees’ room of the Administration bui...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Herbert Laufman, 13, of Houston, Texas, is showing his fellow townsman, Ervin Lee Stein, 11, just how the model “L” cars operate at the Rapid Transit exhibit in the Hall of Science at the Wo...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
George Blagden, husky long distance swimmer, who represented the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Memphis, Tenn., in the 15 mile marathon grind at A Century of Progress in 1933, finishing second to...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., son of the President, pays a visit to the International World Clock at the New World’s Fair. Left to right: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; F.L. Wessen, International B...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Bud Fisher who climbs the high flag poles on the Avenue of Flags at A Century of Progress, gives the crowds there a real thrill when he poises as for a dive to the asphalt 90 feet below him, on ...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Built to demonstrate the use of light as an architectural element in the appearance of buildings, this model city in the General Electric exhibit at A Century of Progress is complete to the stal...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
From left to right: Wallace Sample, Cyril Hill, Mrs. W.B. Wilson, Mrs. W.T. Hall, Mrs. D. Q. Wilson and D. Q. Wilson are shown in the exhibit of the Oriental Institute in the Hall of Social Scie...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Championship Fair-goer Gets Season Ticket No. 1 for 1934. Mrs. Ruby Phelps, 5301 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, shown buying ticket from Martin M. Tveter, Comptroller of A Century of Progress. She att...
UIC Special Collections and University Archives temporarily closing for upgrades!
uicspecialcollections : > UIC SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (SCUA) IN THE > RICHARD J. DALEY LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED FOR EQUIPMENT AND STORAGE > UPGRADES FROM...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
A TALKING KITCHEN which explains itself, a working kitchen where meals are prepared, and between them a planning room where modern electric kitchens are designed represent the General Electric K...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Ahead of schedule, all exhibits of Ford and twenty-one co-exhibitors are en route for their new home in the Ford Exhibition Building at A Century of Progress, Ford officials announced Saturday. A...
Chicago Area Archivists - Special Collections and Universit...lert! The City Plans for Atomic Attack (Chicago Open Archives)
Chicago Area Archivists - Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library - Exhibit tour - Chicago Alert! The City Plans for Atomic Attack (Chicago Open Arc...
UIC Special Collections and University Archives temporarily closing for upgrades!
UIC SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (SCUA) IN THE RICHARD J. DALEY LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED FOR EQUIPMENT AND STORAGE UPGRADES FROM OCT. 18, 2018 TO JAN. 13, 2019. We apologize for th...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
The Monforte Sisters (the four women playing the instruments standing towards the rear left) perform at the Century of Progress Italian Village. To find out more about the Century of Progress ...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Pottery artist working at the Century of Progress Mexican Village. To find out more about the Century of Progress World’s Fair that took place in Chicago in 1933-34, visit the Century of Pro...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Sarita Valiente, 10 year old visitor from Havana, Cuba, with both hands clutching nickels, is well prepared for her Children’s Day visit to the Chicago World’s Fair. A nickel is all it takes ...
Babies in chairs and cribs in the Hull-House creche, ca....
Babies in chairs and cribs in the Hull-House creche, ca. 1890s. This photograph is from our Seven Settlement Houses photograph collection. BROWSE THE ENTIRE COLLECTION , or ASK A LIBRARIAN . H...
#World’s Fair Wednesday
Night view of the Illinois Host Building, where the state of Illinois welcomes guests from her sister states to A Century of Progress – Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair. To find out more abou...
'63 Boycott Documentary Screening | Chicago Collections Consortium
'63 Boycott Documentary Screening | Chicago Collections Consortium : In 1963, 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. ‘63 Boycott, a new documenta...