Century of Progress Fort Dearborn

Name/Title

Century of Progress Fort Dearborn

Entry/Object ID

M79.11.46

Description

Fort scene at the Century of Progress 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. View is inside a stockade showing a large outdoor stove oven with rounded top and 2 log buildings with shingle roofs. A large pole (flag?) is in a dirt-filled circle of stones in unpaved central courtyard. An ox yoke is hanging on the outside wall of out building. Windows have shutters. One building (blockhouse?) has a one-story tower, making it a 3-story building. Photo is mounted on ecru paperboard mat.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Black and White Print

Made/Created

Studio

Hedrich-Blessing

Date made

1933

Time Period

1930s

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects