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Maps of the Chicago Century of Progress World’s Fair, 1933-4
The YMCA Invites You, a Century of Progress. (1933). 8.25” x 3.5”. This fabulous pamphlet opens to a 16.5” x 14” map of downtown with photo vignettes along the borders of 16 YMCAs in Chicago. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their surplus stamp on the front cover. Fine copy otherwise. $75
