See Midget City

See Midget City Chicago Button Museum
Category
Chicago
Event
Additional Images
See Midget City button back Chicago Button Museum
Sub Categories
Illustrations
Litho
Century of Progress
World's Fair
Text on Button A CENTURY OF PROGRESS 1934 SEE MIDGET CITY
Image Description

Green text over an illustration of a town over green with white text on top
Back Style
Unlocking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/8 inch
Year / Decade Made
1930s
1934
Additional Information

A Century of Progress was the theme of the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. The fair featured numerous exhibitions and cultural displays, including a "midget village" which was advertised as being inhabited by sixty Lilliputians. The exhibition later expanded and was renamed "Midget City." Historically, the term midget was used to describe people with the medical condition dwarfism.
Sources

Dwarfism display at World's Fair. (1933). Science Photo. Retrieved from https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/600277/view/dwarfism-display-at-worl…
Catalog ID CH0288