World Fair
by Glen C. Sheffer
1933 Worlds Fair Chicago
1932 Celebrating a Century of Progress at the Worlds Fair in Chicago during the Great Depression.The jubilant design honoring science and industry gives no hint of the fact that the fair was held in the midst of the Great Depression, and that its most important function was not so much to celebrate A Century of Progress, but rather to convince the average American that prosperity was just around the corner. Sheffer was a painter from Angelo, Indiana; he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts