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Lot 421
Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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(CHICAGO, CENTURY OF PROGRESS)
A Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933-1934. Chicago: Kaufman-Fabry Photographers, n.d. (c. 1934). Full blue pebbled leather, (36 cm tall), gilt-decorative spine, silk endpapers, slipcase. Album of photographs of the Century of Progress fairgrounds. Presentation copy to Silas H. Strawn, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Montgomery Ward and a guarantor of gold notes issued to finance the Century of Progress. (Bishop & Gilbert, Chicago's Accomplishments and Leaders, 1932). Upper board detached; some spotting to photographs; slipcase worn and separating.





