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  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyztopics@lemmy.worldA Century of Progress
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    11 days ago

    Do what are the symbols of progress here? The woman in the center seems to be commenting on the progress rather than depicting the progress itself, she she seems to be loving it.

    For actual symbols, we have planes, skyscrapers, a fort, a chemist, the world and an engineer.

    I can see how all these depict progress, but the fort seems to be overly racist. I can only understand this as the conquest against the native Americans which is depicted positively here. But I guess that’s just how people thought back then.