ART DECO - KAUFMANN, Charles D. & Herman Fabry.

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A Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago 1933-1934 presents this Collection of Official Photographs to Orville J. Taylor. First and only edition of this spectacular, highly limited-issue souvenir album for the Century of Progress exposition, an event which was to have a profound influence on modernist architects for decades to come, and served more generally as an invaluable "repository" of Art Deco motifs. A small number of these presentation albums were created as gifts for the Board of Trustees, Officers, and Founder Members for the Exposition by the official photographers. World Cat. records only 15 copies at 12 locations, all but a couple with identifiable recipients; just a handful of copies at auction. This copy from the library of Orville J. Taylor (1885-1969), noted Chicago Attorney, Century of Progress Trustee, World War I veteran who served as Major with the 86th Division of the A.E.F., but unfortunately is also remembered as the author of the whitewash "Taylor Report" on the black market activities of US personnel after World War II.The remarkable images include the spectacular Grand Fountain at night; aerial views across the grounds by night and day; the facade of the Paul Philippe Cret-designed Hall of Science, which typifies the linear, geometric Art Deco style of the Fair, together with an image of the interior of the Great Hall, where smartly dressed crowds scurry past wall text announcing Planck's Quantum and Einstein's Relativity theories; th

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