Talk:Century of Progress
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The Century of Progress opened on May 27, 1933 on the shores of Lake Michigan on a 427 acre plot of land, much of which was landfill. Originally, the fair was scheduled only to run until November 12, but it was so successful that it was opened again to run from May 26 to October 31 the following year.
- It was so successful that instead of running from May 27 to November 12, it ran from May 26 to October 31? this makes no sense. Kingturtle 04:01 26 May 2003 (UTC)
- It seems to me to say the Fair opened originally from May 27, 1933 to November 12, 1933, and was so successful, it was reopened the following year, from May 26, 1934 to October 31, 1934. -- Someone else 04:17 26 May 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Free images
According to U.S. copyright law, any work first published in the United States without an explicit copyright notice before 1978 was never copyrighted and is in the public domain. Posters, local maps, etc., rarely were issued with a copyright notice back in the 1930s. Therefore almost all of the images here are public domain: http://www.cityclicker.net/chicfair/ Lots of images, maps, official papers, etc. – Quadell (talk) (random) 16:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
