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A Century of Progress %u2022 Vintage Postcardsthe exposition for two hours%u2014with a portside tail fin emblazoned with a swastika. However, because Eckener was sensitive to the possible negative political feelings this could generate, he was careful to fly in a clockwise pattern so fairgoers would only have an up-close view of the colors of the German flag on the starboard fin. AfterPhilately and the Fair (Continued)People arrived at the Fair by automobile, train, boat, and airplane. This cover commemorates the arrival of someone by hitchhiking. The addressee, Irving George Wiltrout, was born in 1885, and served in World War I as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps. Besides practicing medicine in Oslo, he was elected Mayor there in 1923. It is unknown who mailed him this hitchhiking card.Graphic of the tail of the Graf Zeppelin, showing the right side with the German colors and The left side with the swastika.ward, the airship landed at the Curtiss-Wright Airport in Glenview, Illinois, where it remained on the ground for a mere twenty-five minutes before departing for a stop at Akron, Ohio. It would be the Graf Zeppelin%u2019s last trip to America.There were also a number of nonpostage stamps printed in conjunction with the Fair. Such stamps are known as poster stamps or Cinderella stamps, and they constitute a specialized area of philately, and are looked down on by some collectors who see them as stickers or labels. Many of them resemble postage stamps, but they are not created for mailing purposes by any governmental postal agency, have no country%u2019s name, and no face value%u2014although some have the name of the organization that issued them. (Stickers issued by book and record clubs are one ex-