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Title: Palmolive Building, by night
Publication Information: Max Rigot Selling Co
Contributing Institution: California State University, Fresno
Collection: Worlds Fair Collection
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Description: 386
A spectacular night-time feature of the new Palmolive Building is the Lindberg Beacon. Mounted atop a shining bronze column, 603 feet above Chicago, its two billion candlepower beam is visible to aviators in the air as far east as Cleveland, Ohio, and as far south as St. Louis, Missouri. Government Surveyors have determined the location of thei Beacon as being Latitude, 41 53' 59 1/4"" N., Longitude 87 37' 25"" W.
Type: image
Format: 9.0 cm. x 14.0 cm.
Identifier: EXP933a.127pc
http://digitized.library.fresnostate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/worldsfair/id/16266
Subject: Century of Progress International Exposition
Place: Chicago, Illinois
Source: Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs
Relation: World's Fair Collection

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