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The story of the Sears, Roebuck national quilting contest and its controversy. Full color illustrations. Indexed.
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Chicago's 1933 World's Fair came to be known as the Rainbow City because of its brightly colored modern buildings, just one of the many contrasts with its earlier world's fair in 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition dubbed the Great White City, with its classic white buildings bathed in the light of thousands of incandescent bulbs at night. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
national quilt contest, pastoral cloth, commemorative quilts, contest quilts, quilt revival, winning quilt, regional contest, quilt designers, quilt exhibit, fair site Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Dearborn, Sears Pavilion, Chicago World's Fair, Margaret Caden, New York, Lois Hobgood, Ellen Mainous, United States, Emma Mae Leonhard, Frances Klemenz, Mattie Black, Sue Roberts, World's Columbian Exposition, Bertha Stenge, Lake Michigan, Lillie Belle Carpenter, Allie Price, Colonial Rose, Ida Rhorer, Margaret Rogers Caden, Rainbow City, White House, Emma Andres, Hall of Science, Linda Rebenstorff New!
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Chicago's 1933 World's Fair came to be known as the Rainbow City because of its brightly colored modern buildings, just one of the many contrasts with its earlier world's fair in 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition dubbed the Great White City, with its classic white buildings bathed in the light of thousands of incandescent bulbs at night. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
national quilt contest, pastoral cloth, commemorative quilts, contest quilts, quilt revival, winning quilt, regional contest, quilt designers, quilt exhibit, fair site Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Dearborn, Sears Pavilion, Chicago World's Fair, Margaret Caden, New York, Lois Hobgood, Ellen Mainous, United States, Emma Mae Leonhard, Frances Klemenz, Mattie Black, Sue Roberts, World's Columbian Exposition, Bertha Stenge, Lake Michigan, Lillie Belle Carpenter, Allie Price, Colonial Rose, Ida Rhorer, Margaret Rogers Caden, Rainbow City, White House, Emma Andres, Hall of Science, Linda Rebenstorff New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- New Jersey (Enchantment Amer) by John Allan Carpenter in Front Matter, page 41, and Back Matter
- West Virginia (New Enchantment of America State Books) by John Allan Carpenter in Front Matter, page 41, and Back Matter
- Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- West Virginia (Portrait of America. Revised Edition) by Kathleen Thompson on page 41
- First Person America by Ann Banks in Back Matter
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