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Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair
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The Journal of American Culture
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June 1, 2008
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Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair Lisa D. Shrenk. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Discussion of "The Century of Progress" world's fair is unthinkable without comparisons with "The Columbian Exposition," not only because they were the two great fairs that took place in Chicago, but also because of the ways they were alike and the ways they were so different. The two fairs were in Chicago, and each was conceived at a time of optimism and opened in times of economic adversity, but the country was in much worse shape by the time of the final plans for the 1933 fair than for the earlier cousin. Also, though both were erected on ...
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