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Informationen zum Autor Cheryl R. Ganz is the chief curator of philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C. She was the curator and designer of the "Pots of Promise" exhibition for the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and is the coeditor of Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40. Klappentext Cheryl R. Ganz is the chief curator of philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C. She was the curator and designer of the "Pots of Promise" exhibition for the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and is the coeditor of Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40. Zusammenfassung From fan dancers to fan belts--the compelling, untold stories of Chicago's 1933 world fair Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Sally Rand and the Midway 7 2. Chicago Boosters Set the Stage 28 3. A New Vision for a World's Fair 52 4. The Vision on Display 67 5. Women's Spaces at the Fair 85 6. African Americans and the Du Sable Legacy 108 7. Ethnic Identity and Nationalistic Representations of Progress 123 8. Aviation, Nationalism, and Progress 137 Epilogue 151 Notes 159 Index 199 Illustrations:Black-and-white section 1 follows page 14 Black-and-white section2 follows page 66 Color section follows page 80 Black-and-white section 3 follows page 116 Black-and-white section 4 follows page 136
