Walter Dorwin Teague, designer (manufactured for Marshall Field & Co., Inc., under trade name Beau
American designer, 1883-1960 (American wholesaler and department store, established 1852)
Sky Ride Dress Fabric
1933
Printed silk crepe
20 3/8 x 25 7/8 inches (51.753 x 65.723 centimeters)
Gift of Kate Fowler Merle-Smith, 1978.
1978.026.474

The sky ride at Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress exposition consisted of two towers connected by cables that supported "rocket cars." Beacons illuminated the towers, and visitors took elevators to the top for a grand view, or to the platform level, where they could ride cars to the other tower. Designer Walter Dorwin Teague chose an illuminated sky-ride tower with cables stretched from it for the design on this silk dress fabric for Marshall Field's department store.