A Century of Progress 2

  

I have four of these postcards from the 1933 Chicago World's fair, The Century of Progress. I wasn't going to publish them back-to-back, but I have to confess I also wasn't going to have such a large gap between the first and second from this series. So, the caption on the back of the card, "Official Post Card of A CENTURY OF PROGRESS 225. General Motors Building at Night." The publishers and copyright are the same as the first card which can be found by clicking on The Century of Progress Collection in labels at the bottom of the post. The GM building was designed by architect Albert Kahn and housed an assembly line, not as large as one found in an actual GM plant, but one that made actual Chevrolet cars that would be sold at the fair. Once again, I don't know why, but blogger cuts a minuscule amount of the image on horizontal images, so click on the card to bring it up in a larger window to see it edge to edge. 

A Century of Progress 1

 

I've written before about my fascination with World's Fairs and my disappointment that I've never had the chance to visit one.  This is one of four postcards I own from this series from The Chicago Word's Fair that ran from 1933- 1934.  This one is numbered 223, the lowest number of the four I have in my collection.  The highest, 235.  The caption, "Official post card of A CENTURY OF PROGRESS, 223. Northerly Isle from the Lagoon."  Published by the Ruben H. Donnely Corporation, Chicago.  I won't be posting the four cards I have in a row, so click on The Century of Progress Collection in labels at the bottom of the post.  I don't know why, but it's fairly common for Blogger to slice just a hair off the right side of horizontal images, so just click on the postcard to bring it up into a window.