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Join us in celebrating the publication of
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A Century of Progress
Cheryl Ganz
Monday, October 20, 2008
3:00-5:00 pm
Reserve Reading Room (1st floor north)
Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
A reception hosted by University Librarian Mary Case will follow a presentation and book signing by Cheryl Ganz.
For travel directions, see http://www.uic.edu/homeindex/maps_directions.shtml
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. 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. 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.
Cheryl R. Ganz is the chief curator of philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C. She was the curator and designer of the "Pots of Promise" exhibition for the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and is the coeditor of Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40.
272 pages. 7 x 10 inches. 86 Photographs.
Cloth, ISBN 978-0-252-03357-5 $39.95
For more information:
Linda Naru
University Library
PH: 312-413-0394
EM: lnaru@uic.edu
Michael Roux
University of Illinois Press
PH: 217-244-4689
EM: mroux@uillinois.edu
