Chicago's great world's fairs

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Chicago's great world's fairs

John E. Findling

(Studies in design and material culture)

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1994

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Description

In 1893 and again in 1933-34, the city of Chicago hosted World's Fairs that contributed significantly to the history of architecture and design in America. Placing emphasis on architecture and exhibition displays, Findling shows the evolution of these elements between the 1890s and the 1930s.

Table of Contents

  • Chicago - the host city
  • the World's Columbian Exposition
  • from one Fair to another
  • planning Chicago's second World's Fair
  • building a "Century of Progress"
  • bright colours and neon lights
  • science - the key to the Progress
  • process, not product
  • fun at the fair
  • a second season - 1934
  • postscript to the fair.

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