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Lindblad, Andrew. Collection
.25 linear feet (1 box)
Special Collections Research Center
This collection contains guidebooks and ephemera from the 1893 World's Columbia Exposition and the 1934 World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois. It also includes contemporary magazines and brochures. The collection dates from 1893 to 1937, with the bulk of the material dating from 1933 to 1937.
This collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Lindblad, Andrew. Collection, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
The World's Columbian Exposition was held between May 1893 and October 1893 in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival to the New World. Primarily located on Chicago's South Side in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance, the Columbian Exposition contained hundreds of structures celebrating various cultures across the world. It is estimated that over 20 million people visited the World's Columbian Exposition.
The 1933 World's Fair — officially titled "A Century of Progress International Exposition" — took place from 1933 to 1934 in the Near South Side of Chicago and celebrated, among many things, the 100th anniversary of the founding of Chicago. A success, the World's Fair was popular enough to be opened for an extra five months and it was the first international fair in the United States that was able to pay for itself.
This collection is divided into two series: Series I, World's Fairs and Series II, Magazines and Brochures.
Series I, World's Fairs consists of official guidebooks and ephemera of the two World's Fairs held in Chicago in 1893 and 1933.
Series II, Magazines and Brochures consists of magazines and newspaper clippings roughly contemporary with the 1933 World's Fair.
The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections:
Series I: World's Fairs
|Box 1 Folder 1|
Official Guide to the World's Columbia Exposition, 1893
|Box 1 Folder 2|
World's Columbia Exposition Postcards, 1893
|Box 1 Folder 3|
Official Guide Book; Book of the Fair, 1933
|Box 1 Folder 4|
Chicago and Its Two Fairs, 1933
|Box 1 Folder 5|
Official Guide Book of the World's Fair of 1934, 1934
|Box 1 Folder 6|
Official Handbook of Exhibits in the Division of the Basic Science, 1934
|Box 1 Folder 7|
|Box 1 Folder 8|
Newspaper Clippings, undated
Series II: Magazines and Brochures
|Box 1 Folder 9|
Scribner's Magazine, 1937
|Box 1 Folder 10|
Plate Progress Number 26; Kodachrome Edition, undated
|Box 1 Folder 11|
Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Advertising brochure, undated