#worldsfairwednesday

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For our next #PageFrights installment, we’re sharing this photo (and a few-close-ups) taken at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair. It may look like the last scene of Rosemary’s Baby, but the caption reads:

Eileen Leonard visits the home of some miniature World’s Fair performers, at the du Pont “Wonder World of Chemistry” building. A marionette show is used to sum up the story of chemical research and its relation to the lives of the average American family. The little chap is perched on the lady’s knee is the guide. The Tatterman group, under the direction of William I. Duncan, is producing the show. 

From Accession 1982.304, photos of DuPont’s presence at World’s Fairs, in Hagley’s Audiovisual Archives.

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Front and back covers of the World’s Columbian Exposition Waltz (1893) by Adelaide Marcelia Gluck | Illinois During the Gilded Age |  NIU Digital Library

For #worldsfairwednesday, images from the front and back of a waltz composed by Adelaide Marcelia Gluck for grand opening of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. 

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Posted by Lynne M. Thomas, Curator, Rare Books and Special Collections

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Don't Purchase World's Fair Guide Books Unless They Have the Official Endorsement ... (1893) ; Buy Only Official Guidebooks... (1893) | Illinois During the Gilded Age | NIU Digital Library

For #worldsfairwednesday, Two advertisements exhorting attendees of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago to ONLY purchase officially sanctioned guide books rather than from among the proliferation of unofficial guides.

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Posted by Lynne M. Thomas, Curator, Rare Books and Special Collections

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#World’s Fair Wednesday

This postcard depicting the world’s tallest thermometer (!) is from Century of Progress Series 16-Publications, Box 17, Folder 244.

Learn more about the Century of Progress World’s Fair here.

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For World’s Fair Wednesday, a few pages of a souvenir catalog from the Worcester Corset Company’s Exhibit at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Trade Cat .W921 1893, in Hagley’s Published Collections. 

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On #WorldsFairWednesday, a few aerial photos of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City, taken by the Dallin Aerial Survey Company. You can see more photos of the Trylon and Perisphere, in our Digital Archive. 

From 1970.200, Dallin Aerial Survey Collection, in Hagley’s Audiovisual collections.

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#World’s Fair Wednesday

Exterior view of the Field Museum of Natural History. Named after the Chicago department store magnate Marshall Field, the Field Museum was first incorporated as the "Columbian Museum of Chicago" shortly after the close of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Learn more about the Century of Progress World’s Fair here.

[COP_17_0009_00298_005], Century of Progress Records, 1927-1952, University of Illinois at Chicago Library.

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#World’s Fair Wednesday

Exterior view of the Federal Building on Northerly Island adjacent to the Court of States exhibit. The Federal Building featured an art-deco design that included a rotunda and three tower-pylons representing the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the U.S.government.

Learn more about the Century of Progress World’s Fair here.

[COP_17_0010_00307_012], Century of Progress Records, 1927-1952, University of Illinois at Chicago Library.