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Official guide book of the world's fair of 1934.

Official 208-page guidebook of the 1933-34 World's Fair in Chicago (The Century of Progress)

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The Exposition

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Official guide book of the world's fair of 1934.
1934, A Century of progress international exposition
in English
Cover of: Official guide book of the world's fair of 1934.

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Edition Notes

Published in
Chicago

Classifications

Library of Congress
T501.A1 C42 1934

The Physical Object

Pagination
192 p. :

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL13489860M
Internet Archive
officialguideboo00cent
LCCN
35018680
OCLC/WorldCat
1067546

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Internet Archive item record

Excerpts

FOREWORD AND WELCOME
This is the official guide book to A Century of Progress International Exposition in 1934, the World's Fair at Chicago. It contains the fullest and most accurate information possible for the purpose of directing our visitors how to find everything in the Exposition and how to make use of the Expositions facilities for their comfort and convenience.
added by Katharine Hadow.
CHILDREN MAY BE LEFT AT ENCHANTED ISLAND PLAYGROUND. Parents or elders in charge of children between 3 and 12 years old may check them at Enchanted Island after 10 a.m. Before checking, the children are inspected by official doctors to ensure safety of all. The children are cared for in playghground and adjoining playroom by attendants who are experienced graduates in recreation work and kindergarten colleges. Fee for checking and registration, 25c. Standard diet lunches provided for 25c and up additional. Chiildren aged 3 to 23 may be left without checking and registration for a fee of 10c. Medical inspection and privileges same as for registered children.
Page 11, added by Katharine Hadow.
A statistical chart of 100 years of social legislation, copies of old inhuman laws and an illustrated community planning map introduce exhibits of social work in which 98 organizations cooperated.....Diorama of an old almshouse yard with children, aged paupers and insane cases herded together is background for an exhibit of scientific separation and humane care.
Work of the Red Cross, social settlements, adjustment of immigrants and the efforts of the Urban League for the welfare of negroes are shown. The abolition of crime-breeding slums, installation of factory recreation grounds, clinics, visiting nurses, health education and hospital social service are illustrated.
Page 93, added by Katharine Hadow.
FLORIDA HOUSE. Modernistic luxury in a design adapted to the unconventional freedom of living largely outdoors is shown in this house, not built to meet a budget but to present an ideal.

Spaciousness and freedom, with a minimum of household labor, is the object. From the front you enter a two-story living room with a ceiling-high studio window on that side, and on the left, a polished aluminum open stairway leading to the upper floor. The living room opens to the dining room on one side, and on the other, to a loggia overlooking the lake. The bathroom is a large, square room with plate glass partitions between the showers and the sunken tub. All the roof, except over the living room, is given to wide deck terraces to which one steps from m the airy bedrooms.

Interior decoration is in modern Victorian style, with specially designed furniture, and makes use of wall papers, appropriate drapery fabrics, and special indoor lighting effects.
Page 130, added by Katharine Hadow.

This house still exists in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, along with some of the other Century of Progress houses. Its exterior stucco is such a bright pink that sailors on Lake Michigan use it as a nautical landmark.

JOHNS-MANVILLE BUILDING
USES OF ASBESTOS are shown in a complete home remodelling exhibit.
Page 134, added by Katharine Hadow.
Hiram Walker & Sons invite you to visit this unusually entertaining and educational exhibit
Extending 400 feet out into the cool waters of the lagoon from the middle of the 16th Street bridge are the Hiram Walker & Sons exhibit and the "Canadian Club" cafe... Here you will see one of the most interesting and educational displays at the Fair. A series of beautiful murals depicts practically every stage in the distilling process from the grain fields to the finished product....You are cordially invited to visit this truly remarkable exhibit. It will be something to tell the folks about when you get back home.
Page 193, added by Katharine Hadow.

Prohibition was repealed in 1933--visiting the Canadian Club probably was something to boast about.

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