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
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Notes
Handwritten script on back: 32. Langdon Longwell Collection - Century of Progress 1933-1934. Fort Scene.
