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In this engaging social and cultural history, Cheryl R. Ganz examines Chicago's second world's fair through the lenses of technology, ethnicity, and gender. The book also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other items. From fan(...)
October 2008
The 1933 Chicago World's fair: century of progress
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In this engaging social and cultural history, Cheryl R. Ganz examines Chicago's second world's fair through the lenses of technology, ethnicity, and gender. The book also features eighty-six photographs--nearly half of which are full color--of key locations, exhibits, and people, as well as authentic ticket stubs, postcards, pamphlets, posters, and other items. From fan dancers to fan belts, The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress offers the compelling, untold stories of fair planners and participants who showcased education, industry, and entertainment to sell optimism during the depths of the Great Depression.
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263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Los Angeles, CA : Inventory Press LLC, [2018]
Dimensions of citizenship / editors: Nick Axel, Ann Lui, and Mimi Zeiger, with Iker Gil.
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Los Angeles, CA : Inventory Press LLC, [2018]
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
The human condition / by Hannah Arendt ; introduction by Margaret Canovan.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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pages 581-590 : illustrations ; 23 cm
Chicago : [Portland Cement Association], [1956]
Effect of aggregate on shrinkage of concrete and hypothesis concerning shrinkage / by Gerald Pickett.
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pages 581-590 : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Chicago : [Portland Cement Association], [1956]
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Chicago : Structural Materials Research Laboratory, 1924.
Tests of impure waters for mixing concrete / by Duff A. Abrams.
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Chicago : Structural Materials Research Laboratory, 1924.
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Chicago, Amer. School of Correspondence, 1909.
Railroad engineering; an authoritative manual of modern practice in the survey, location, and construction of railroad lines and terminals, their operation and maintenance, and the financing and economic management of railroad corporations, by Walter Loring Webb ...
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Chicago, Amer. School of Correspondence, 1909.
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xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1992.
Forests : the shadow of civilization / Robert Pogue Harrison.
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xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1992.
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Chicago : Building Officials and Code Administrators International, 1972.
1972 proposed changes to the BOCA basic codes : for discussion at a public hearing : Biltmore Hotel and Motor Inn, Providence, Rhode Island, January 6-7, 1972.
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Chicago : Building Officials and Code Administrators International, 1972.
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1 atlas (141, xxii p.) : ill., col. maps, ports. ; 46 cm.
Chicago : G.A. Ogle & Co., 1901.
Standard atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county ... Patrons directory, reference business directory, and departments devoted to general information ... / compiled by Geo A. Ogle & Co.
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Chicago : G.A. Ogle & Co., 1901.
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47 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
[Chicago] : Edwynn Houk Gallery, ©1985.
André Kertész, vintage photographs.
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[Chicago] : Edwynn Houk Gallery, ©1985.