Showing posts with label 1933-34 Worlds Fair Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1933-34 Worlds Fair Chicago. Show all posts

Friday, July 31, 2020

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

"Ford's 'Drama of Transportation' in New World's Fair. This is a conception by Hugh Ferriss (one of my favorite artists) of what the interior of the great Ford Building will look like when A Century of Progress opens in Chicago May 26.


and the 'Ford World' in New World's Fair. This electrically driven globe will be one of the exhibits in the giant Ford Building


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Barney Oldfield getting mobbed for an autograph

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933-34


After winning the tenth annual pushmobile race sponsored by the Board of Education which was held at the Chicago World's Fair yesterday (Friday), the victorious Orr playground team is presented with Chrysler Motors medals by Ernst Buehler, vice president of the Chicago Board of Education.

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