Leon Weinraub Chicago World's Fair Scrapbook
name: label: Collector
content: Weinraub, Leon
label: Names
content: Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)
place: label: Place
content: Chicago (Ill.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Exhibitions -- 1930-1940 -- Chicago (Ill.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Leon Weinraub's daughter, Ms. Gail Leon of Bethesda, Maryland, donated this scrapbook in 2000.
creator: label: Collector
content: Weinraub, Leon
abstract: label: Summary
content: One scrapbook, assembled by Leon Weinraub, documenting the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. The scrapbook contains postcards, photographs, menus, and other ephemera from the Fair.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Leon Weinraub was born in 1910. He was a member of the Evening Sun Newsboy's Band in Baltimore Maryland. In 1933 he was in Chicago attending the University of Chicago art school. He was also an employee at the Antiseptic Super Bandage exhibit at the World's Fair. After the fair ended, he worked for the Typewriter Specialists and changed his name to Leon Traub.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Box 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0746
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Menus
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Lynell J. De Wind, 2003.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1930-1940
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards -- 1930-1940
label: Genre/Form
content: Menus
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks -- 1900-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of a souvenir scrapbook printed by the organizers of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Contents from the Fair include: Postcards, admission pass (signed by Jean Harlowe), photos, autographs, correspondence, menus, caricatures, and other ephemera. Leon Weinraub included additional material from 1924 and 1934-1937 (not inclusive). These items are an address book, photos, correspondence and newspaper clippings. Materials consist of approximately 1 cubic foot.