Aerial View of the Ford Exhibition Building and Symphony Gardens, Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1934

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Artifact Overview

Ford Motor Company was a major exhibitor at Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition in 1934. Ford's large exhibition building, bandshell, and Roads of the World experience sat on eleven acres along Lake Michigan. They composed the fair's largest, most talked-about exhibit and attracted more than twelve million fairgoers.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1934

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.232.877

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11 in

Inscriptions

verso: R305
Aerial View of the Ford Exhibition Building and Symphony Gardens, Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1934