World's Fair in a Nutshell. A Century of Progress. Gale Specialty Co. Chicago. 1932. Concertina strip of 40, alternating photographs and text, printed to one side only (‘a pull-out accordion booklet of pictures and descriptions of important architectural works from the fair’). 25 x 20 mm. Oily spot for about 10 pages in the middle but just a bit discolouring the paper. Housed in a real walnut shell, measures approx 40 mm., sewn on one side, with red wire closure. With the original colour-printed paper mailing tag, filled out. This thing was mailed from Chicago to New York, today it would just get lost in the mail. Illawarra Historical Society mentions the only other copies I can trace https://tinyurl.com/5x4wy2ph . A rare surviving souvenir/tourism item from a exhibition event or agricultural show in the early 1932 original walnut shell. 140 firsts2024