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A Striking Example of Centuries of Progress!

14 Monday Oct 2013

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in dinosaur

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big news, chicago, chicago world's fair edition, dinosaur, Sinclair, Sinclair dinosaur, Sinclair Oil, Sinclair World's Fair Dinosaur, worlds fair

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Today we’ll share with you a publication nearly a century old now: the Chicago World’s Fair Edition of Big News. Published by Sinclair Oil, it showcases their dinosaur exhibit at the World’s Fair in 1934.

Yes, we have shared with you some other Sinclair memorabilia in our Sinclair Archives, and specifically some things from this same World’s Fair. But this monstrous tome takes the prehistoric cake. Though our copy has damage, the images and text remain intact for the most part. Allow us to mention a few notes, or just scroll down to our gallery today and dive right in!

But first, a word from beauty and the beast:

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Notes: We spliced a few things, but the front cover has a tear requiring more digital reconstruction than we care to do right now.

One image we did not bother to splice together in our restoration efforts: the silly Sinclair Minstrels musical act with members in blackface. Some parts of American history just don’t merit the pixels they are printed on. Those embarrassing racist depictions stick out like a sore thumb among the dinosaur sculptures.

We know there was a second edition of this magazine with different images, but we don’t have it — yet! We also know many of these dinosaur depictions have gross scientific inaccuracies. We could point them out to you and play dino expert, but it’s really more fun finding them for yourself!






The Transparent Man!

24 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in dinosaur

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1934, advertising, chicago daily news, dinosaur, Sinclair, Sinclair Dinosaurs, Sinclair World's Fair Dinosaur, transparent man, worlds fair

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Dig this. We scanned a little piece of history for you: pages from the 1934 Chicago Daily News issues celebrating their World’s Fair that year. Sinclair Oil had a major exhibit at the World’s Fair, and you will find many dinosaurs here. They include a dimetrodon, which is not actually a dinosaur but a therapsid or something. And, you find a triceratops mis-labeled as “Mr. Brontosaurus.”

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Some odd cultural artifacts populate this paper. You will find an ad for southern cooking that we might consider racist these days, ads for show girl revues, a town full of midgets, and proof that people were once very afraid their refrigerators might be unsafe. All that and more await you in our gallery here, so delve in!

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