POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY - THEN TEMPORARILY FIELD MUSEUM - HAD BEEN ART GALLERY FOR THE 1893 WORLD'S FAIR - SOUTH-FACING SIDE ON LAGOON - JACKSON PARK WITH 540 ACRES - TINTED - 1910
A LARGE COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS ABOUT CHICAGO. MUCH OF THE BUILT-ENVIRONMENT OF THE EARLIER POSTCARDS SURVIVED INTO THE 1950-60s, THE TIME OF MY GREATEST INTEREST.
INCLUDED ALSO ARE MENUS, MATCHBOOKS, AND OTHER ITEMS REFLECTING CITY LIFE IN THE 1950s AND 1960s. IT IS HOPED THESE PRESERVE SOMETHING OF THE SENSE OF WHAT A SPECIAL PLACE THE CHICAGO OF THAT TIME WAS IN WHICH TO GROW UP.
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