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The WPA Guide to Illinois: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Illinois

Edition: First Pantheon Edition

Abstract: "First Published in 1939, 'The WPA Guide to Illinois' captures more vividly than any other guide both Chicago's quick pulse and the richly varied character of the rest of the state. Thirties Chicago, birthplace of the skyscraper, had just played host to the dazzling Century of Progress Exposition; the Board of Trade was the city's tallest building; and State Street was said to be the most brilliantly lighted street in the world. The stunning residences of the Gold Coast along Lake Shore Drive offered the city's most concentrated display of wealth, while on the South Side hundreds of freight cars rattled into the stock yards each night with their noisy cargo of livestock."

Language: English

Notes: Abstract taken from the back cover.

ISSN/ISBN: 0394721950

Catalog Number: Book, Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Illinois

Year; Mid-Century Edition: 1900-1950

Edition: 1

Abstract: "The dramatic story of 50 turbulent years in 2,000 pictures, 100,000 words...a permanent record of all the important national and world events..."

Language: English

Notes: Reads like a giant newspaper, touching on every war, fad, significant scientific and socio-political lurch, with tons and tons of pictures. However it came into CUL's posession, YEAR passed from Ceceila Chutw to Mike Pintozzi in 1998. While the publisher kept offices in Los Angeles, the book itself was printed and bound in Chicago by Lakeside Press, R.R. & Donnelly and Sons Company.

Catalog Number: book