Chicago A Century of Progress
1833-1933
162 
pages, B/W photographs
- Bonus 
Book –
Official 
Guidebook
Of the 
Fair - 1933
A 
Century of Progress
180 pages, 
B/W photographs

- Bonus 
Book –
Official Bookviews
Of the
 Fair
68 pages, Color 
Illustrations

 
- Bonus 
Book –
Official Book of the Fair
102 pages, 
Illustrated


- Bonus 
Book –
Photographic History of the World's Fair
By James Wilson Pierce
, 1934
532 pages, 
Illustrated


- Bonus 
Book –
Official Pictures of the World's Fair

67 pages, Color 
Illustrations

 

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A Century of
Progress International Exposition was the name of a World's Fair held in
Chicago from 1933 to 1934 to celebrate the city's centennial. The theme of the
fair was technological innovation. The fair's motto was "Science Finds,
Industry Applies, Man Conforms"; its architectural symbol was the Sky
Ride, a transporter bridge perpendicular to the shore on which one could ride
from one side of the fair to the other.

A Century of
Progress was organized as an Illinois nonprofit corporation in January 1928 for
the purpose of planning and hosting a World's Fair in Chicago in 1934. City
officials designated three and a half miles of newly reclaimed land along the
shore of Lake Michigan between 12th and 39th streets on the Near South Side for
the fairgrounds. Held on a 427 acres portion of Burnham Park the Century of Progress
opened on May 27, 1933. 

The fair's
opening night began with a nod to the heavens. Lights were automatically
activated when the rays of the star Arcturus were detected. The star was chosen
as its light had started its journey at about the time of the previous Chicago
world's fair—the World's Columbian Exposition—in 1893.The rays were focused on
photoelectric cells in a series of astronomical observatories and then
transformed into electrical energy which was transmitted to Chicago.

 

  
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