1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786792803321

Autore

Ganz Cheryl

Titolo

The 1933 Chicago World's Fair : century of progress / / Cheryl R. Ganz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-252-09550-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

907.4/77311

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sally Rand and the midway -- Chicago boosters set the stage -- A new vision for a world's fair -- The vision on display -- Women's spaces at the fair -- African Americans and the Du Sable legacy -- Ethnic identity and nationalistic representations of progress -- Aviation as a nationalism, and progress.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715870903321

Titolo

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report of E.F. Beale of his exploration for a wagon road from Fort Defiance, in New Mexico, to the western borders of California. March 30, 1858. -- Read. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. April 7, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [publisher not identified], , 1858

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (5 pages)

Collana

Senate executive document / 35th Congress, 1st session. Senate ; ; no. 43

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 929]

Soggetti

Camels

Discoveries in geography

Military bases

Roads

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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