A Century of Progress International Exposition: Sources and Further Reading
Sources
Cotter, Bill. Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair: A Century of Progress. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2015.
Ganz, Cheryl R. The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress. University of Illinois Press, 2008. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt7zw67s.
Rydell, Robert W. “Century of Progress Exposition.” In Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 2005. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/225.html.
Rydell, Robert W., Laura Burd Schiavo, and Robert Bennett. Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Schrenk, Lisa Diane. Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Further Reading
Explore what the Chicago Architecture Center has to say about the Art Moderne architecture of the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition.
Peruse an original copy of the Catalogue of A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture on the Internet Archive.
View digitized documents of Century of Progress International Exposition Publications held by the University of Chicago Library.
Learn more about five model homes from the Homes of Tomorrow exhibit at the Century of Progress Exposition, now located on the sand dunes of Indiana and under the care of Indiana Landmarks and the National Park Service.
Take a closer look at commemorative objects from the Century of Progress Exposition in the National Postal Museum’s spotlight on Stamps of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.