Editing Century of Progress (section)

==Exhibits==
[[File:Tony Sarg - A Century of Progress International Exposition map.png|thumb|''A Century of Progress International Exposition'' – map drawn by [[Tony Sarg]]]]

The fair buildings were multi-colored, to create a "Rainbow City" as compared to the "White City" of Chicago's earlier [[World's Columbian Exposition]]. The buildings generally followed [[Moderne architecture]] in contrast to the neoclassical themes used at the 1893 fair. One famous feature of the fair were the performances of fan dancer [[Sally Rand]]. [[Hal Pearl]] then known as "Chicago's Youngest Organist" and later "The King of the Organ" was the official organist of the fair. Mary Ann McArdle and her sister Isabel (from the UK) performed Irish Dancing.  Other popular exhibits were the various auto manufacturers, the Midway (filled with nightclubs such as the Old Morocco, where future stars [[Judy Garland]], the Cook Family Singers, and [[the Andrews Sisters]] performed), and a recreation of important scenes from Chicago's history. The fair also contained exhibits that would seem shocking to modern audiences, including offensive portrayals of [[African Americans]], a "Midget City" complete with "sixty [[Lilliput and Blefuscu|Lilliputians]]",<ref>{{cite book| last=Raabe| first=Meinhardt| author-link=Meinhardt Raabe| author2=Daniel Kinske| title=Memories of a Munchkin| publisher=Back Stage Books| year=2005| location=New York| isbn=0-8230-9193-7| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/memoriesofmunchk00raab}}</ref> and an exhibition of [[wikt:incubator|incubator]]s containing real babies.<ref>[http://www.omahapubliclibrary.org/transmiss/regions/northmid/baby.html ''Baby Incubators''], Omaha Public Library {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826160814/http://www.omahapubliclibrary.org/transmiss/regions/northmid/baby.html |date=August 26, 2009 }}.</ref>

The fair included an exhibit on the history of Chicago. In the planning stages, several African American groups from the city's newly growing population campaigned for [[Jean Baptiste Point du Sable]] to be honored at the fair.<ref name="Reed">{{cite journal|last=Reed|first=Christopher R.|title='In the Shadow of Fort Dearborn': Honoring De Saible at the Chicago World's Fair of 1933–1934|journal=Journal of Black Studies|date=June 1991|volume=21|issue=4|pages=398–413|jstor=2784685|doi=10.1177/002193479102100402|s2cid=145599165}}</ref> At the time, few Chicagoans had even heard of Point du Sable, and the fair's organizers presented the 1803 construction of [[Fort Dearborn]] as the city's historical beginning. The campaign was successful, and a replica of Point du Sable's cabin was presented as part of the "background of the history of Chicago".<ref name="Reed"/> Also on display was the "Lincoln Group" of reconstructions of buildings associated with the biography of Abraham Lincoln, including his birth cabin, the [[Lincoln-Berry General Store]], the Chicago Wigwam (in reduced scale), and the Rutledge Tavern which served as a restaurant.

[[Richard E. Byrd#Early Antarctic expeditions|Admiral Byrd's polar expedition ship]] the ''[[City of New York (1885 ship)|City of New York]]'' was visited by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] when he came to the fair on October 2, 1933. The ''City'' was on show for the full length of the exhibition.<ref>{{cite web |title=Itinerary for FDR's trip to the Chicago World's Fair |url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/resource/october-1933-2/ |website=fdrlibrary.marist.edu |access-date=June 3, 2018 |archive-date=June 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180605175012/http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/resource/october-1933-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Century of Progress Graf Zeppelin Flight Cover.jpg|thumb|left|Cover carried on the ''[[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|Graf Zeppelin]]'' from 1933 ''Century of Progress Exposition'' franked with C-18 US Air Mail stamp issued for the airship's visit.]]
One of the highlights of the 1933 World's Fair was the arrival of the German airship [[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|''Graf Zeppelin'']] on October 26, 1933. After circling Lake Michigan near the exposition for two hours, Commander [[Hugo Eckener]] landed the 776-foot airship at the nearby [[Naval Air Station Glenview#Pre-military history|Curtiss-Wright Airport]] in [[Glenview, Cook County, Illinois|Glenview]]. It remained on the ground for twenty-five minutes (from 1 to 1:25&nbsp;pm)<ref>{{cite web |last=Senkus |first=William M. |title=Cinderella Stamps of the Century of Progress Expo in Chicago, Illinois |work=alphabetilately.org |year=2002 |url=http://alphabetilately.org/CoP.html |access-date=November 9, 2017 |archive-date=April 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430204251/http://alphabetilately.org/CoP.html |url-status=live }}</ref> then took off ahead of an approaching weather front, bound for [[Akron, Ohio]].

The "dream cars" which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included [[Rollston]] bodywork on a [[Duesenberg]] chassis, and was called the [[Twenty Grand (Duesenberg)|''Twenty Grand'']] ultra-luxury sedan; [[Cadillac (automobile)|Cadillac]]'s introduction of its [[Cadillac V-16|V-16 limousine]]; [[Nash Motors|Nash]]'s exhibit had a variation on the vertical (i.e., [[paternoster lift]]) parking garage—all the cars were new Nashes; [[Lincoln (automobile)|Lincoln]] presented its rear-engined "concept car" precursor to the [[Lincoln-Zephyr]], which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine; [[Pierce-Arrow]] presented its modernistic [[Pierce Silver Arrow]] for which it used the byline "Suddenly it's 1940!" But it was [[Packard]] which won the best of show with the reintroduction of the [[Packard Twelve#Second Generation|Packard Twelve]].

[[File:Pioneer Zephyr Dawn to Dusk Club.jpg|thumb|The passengers, including "Zeph" the burro, that rode the ''Zephyr'' on the "Dawn-to-Dusk Dash" gather for a group photo in front of the train after arriving in Chicago on May 26, 1934.]]
An enduring exhibit was the [[1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition]] that demonstrated modern home convenience and creative practical new building materials and techniques with twelve model homes sponsored by several corporations affiliated with home decor and construction.

[[File:Electrical Building at night, repro. of painting by Wm. Mark Young (NBY 417869).jpg|thumb|''Electrical Building at night'', by [[William Mark Young]] ]]
Marine artist [[Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein]] painted twelve murals for the Navy's exhibit in the Federal Building for the fair. The frieze was composed of twelve murals depicting the influence of sea power on America, beginning with the settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]], in 1607 when sea power first reached America and carrying through World War I.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/HGorensteinf.html| publisher=University of Illinois at Chicago archive| title=U.S. Navy Exhibits Arrive for Fair; Models to Show Sea's Influence on Nation| newspaper=[[Chicago Daily News]]| first=Malcolm| last=McDowell| date=May 6, 1933| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627104736/http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/HGorensteinf.html| archive-date=June 27, 2009| df=mdy-all}}</ref> Another set of murals, painted for the Ohio State Exhibit by [[William Mark Young]], was relocated afterwards to the [[Ohio Statehouse]].<ref name="Geographicus">{{cite web |title=Young, William Mark (March 18, 1881 – January 1, 1946): Geographicus Rare Antique Maps |url=https://www.geographicus.com/P/ctgy&Category_Code=youngwilliammark |website=Geographicus |access-date=November 19, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Final">{{cite book |last1=Northwest Territory Celebration Commission |title=Final Report of the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission |date=1938 |pages=10–11, 47–50 |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f119e2b404a7c38b527f5a0/t/5f68ac370587154ff8a047f5/1600695367637/5.5x8_Start+Westward+Booklet_WEB2.pdf}}</ref> Young also painted scenes of the exhibition buildings.

The [[1933 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|first]] [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game]] was held at [[Comiskey Park]] (home of the [[Chicago White Sox]]) in conjunction with the fair.

[[File:Frank Buck Club Century of Progress pin.jpg|thumb|left|[[Frank Buck (animal collector)|Frank Buck]] souvenir badge]]
In May 1934, the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] exhibited its first streamlined train, the [[M-10000]], and the [[Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad]] its famous ''[[Pioneer Zephyr|Zephyr]]'' which, on May 26, made a record-breaking dawn-to-dusk run from Denver, Colorado, to Chicago in 13 hours and 5 minutes, called the "Dawn-to-Dusk Dash". To cap its record-breaking speed run, the ''Zephyr'' arrived dramatically on-stage at the fair's "Wings of a Century" transportation pageant.<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite web| publisher=Chicago Museum of Science and Industry| work=excerpts from the New York Times| date=May 27, 1934| url=http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/zephyr/history/nytimes/nytimes.html| title=Pioneer Zephyr – A Legendary History| access-date=February 24, 2005| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050208015948/http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/zephyr/history/nytimes/nytimes.html | archive-date=February 8, 2005| url-status=dead}}</ref> The two trains launched an era of industrial streamlining.<ref>{{Zimmermann-Burlington|pages=16, 26}}</ref> Both trains later went into successful revenue service, the Union Pacific's as the ''City of Salina'', and the Burlington ''Zephyr'' as the first ''Pioneer Zephyr''.<ref>{{cite book| last1=Schafer| first1=Mike| first2=Joe| last2=Welsh| year=1997| title=Classic American Streamliners| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-jEOg16QX8C&dq=Zephyr+%22dawn-to-dusk%22&pg=PA10| page=14| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019205058/https://books.google.com/books?id=e-jEOg16QX8C&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=Zephyr+%22dawn-to-dusk%22&source=bl&ots=ApuPg6H4OO&sig=ACfU3U3Ef7VmstqhUxpzIXCJCXzi678r7A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjlk7ysj4TgAhWF94MKHR9SD4k4FBDoATAIegQIARAB#v=onepage&q=Zephyr%20%22dawn-to-dusk%22&f=false| archive-date=October 19, 2021| publisher=MBI Publishing| location=Osceola, Wisconsin| isbn=0-7603-0377-0}}.</ref> The ''Zephyr'' is now on exhibit at [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/all-aboard-the-pioneer-zephyr/|title=All Aboard the Pioneer Zephyr|website=MSI Chicago|access-date=June 29, 2018|archive-date=November 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119204348/https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/all-aboard-the-pioneer-zephyr/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Frank Buck (animal collector)|Frank Buck]] furnished a wild animal exhibit, Frank Buck's Jungle Camp. Over two million people visited Buck's reproduction of the camp he and his native assistants lived in while collecting animals in Asia. After the fair closed, Buck moved the camp to a compound he had created at [[Amityville, New York]].<ref>[http://www.pmphoto.to/worlds_fair/wf_tour/zone-7/jungle_land.htm Frank Buck's Jungleland] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716044002/http://www.pmphoto.to/worlds_fair/wf_tour/zone-7/jungle_land.htm |date=July 16, 2009 }}</ref>

{{Panorama|image=File:Panorama of A Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, 1933.jpg|height=200px|caption=Panoramic view of the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair}}