Cheryl R Ganz

The 1933 Chicago World's Fair

A Century of Progress

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 179mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9780252078521
• ISBN-10: 0252078527
• Artikelnr.: 34553696

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments   ix
Introduction   1
1. Sally Rand and the Midway   7
2. Chicago Boosters Set the Stage   28
3. A New Vision for a World's Fair   52
4. The Vision on Display   67
5. Women's Spaces at the Fair   85
6. African Americans and the Du Sable Legacy   108
7. Ethnic Identity and Nationalistic Representations of Progress   123
8. Aviation, Nationalism, and Progress   137
Epilogue   151
Notes   159
Index   199
Illustrations:
Black-and-white section 1 follows page 14
Black-and-white section2 follows page 66
Color section follows page 80
Black-and-white section 3 follows page 116
Black-and-white section 4 follows page 136