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A Century of Progress %u2022 Vintage PostcardsArena SeriesGeneral Motors Building, 708A dominating building at the World%u2019s Fair, surrounded by a lovely formal garden. It is an eighth of a mile long and 306 feet wide, surmounted by a 177-foot tower, brilliantly colored and illuminated. Here the cars of General Motors are on exhibition and the central feature is a complete automobile assembly plant, where 1,000 people at a time may witness the modern assembly of automobiles.The Horticultural Building, 809A most beautiful building, full of the beauties of nature. Here gardeners and florists have used real trees, real flowers, real brooks, to present scene after scene in dioramic settings. The most unusual trees, plants and flowers are shown. Concealed skylights flood the flowers with sunshine, or, when needed, the blossoms are bathed in electric ultra-violet rays.