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                                    A Century of Progress %u2022 Vintage PostcardsCircular Court of the Electrical Building, 609In the court a fountain sends up iridescent jets in a series of multi-colored steps. The great building itself, in semi-circular form, surrounds the court. A group of pylons rises with a giant bas-relief panel on either side, on which figures are sculpted in such mammoth size as to suggest the enormous forces they symbolize%u2014energy and light.The Dairy Building, 710On oval-shaped structure, 167 feet long and 114 feet wide, with a tower 69 feet high. It is painted a milk-white. The principal display is a cyclorama on which masses of color are played by the Clavilux, or color organ, designed to play with color as musical instruments play with sound. This spectacle presents the development of the dairy industry from the cavemen to the present scientific preparation and distribution of milk products. A unique feature is a mechanical reproduction of a cow showing the cow as a chemical laboratory, manufacturing milk.Arena Series
                                
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