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Aerial View Of The Equitable's Garden Of Security
Title:
Aerial View Of The Equitable's Garden Of Security
Linen unused

Description:
The Exhibit of The Equitable life Assurance Society of the United States symbolizes the tranquillity and peace of mid that life insurance protection offers the insured and his family


Amusement Area From Liberty Lake By Night
Title:
Amusement Area From Liberty Lake By Night
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair



Belgium Exhibits Bldg
Title:
Belgium Exhibits Bldg
Real Photo unused

Description:
N.Y.W.F


Bridge Of Wings
Title:
Bridge Of Wings
Linen PM 1940

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. Gaily decorated with the flags of all nations represented by exhibits at the Fair, this Bridge carries the Street of Wings in the central exhibit area across Grand Central Parkway into the Avenue of transportation in the area devoted exclusively to transportation methods and equipment.



British Pavillion
Title:
British Pavillion
Real Photo unused

Description:
Lagoon of Nations. N.Y.W.F.


Builders Of The Future Statue By Wm. Zorach And Business Systems And Insurance Building
Title:
Builders Of The Future Statue By Wm. Zorach And Business Systems And Insurance Building
Linen unused

Description:
Trylon and Perisphere, New York World's Fair.



Business Systems And Insurance Building
Title:
Business Systems And Insurance Building
Rose Court, Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. Utilizing the graceful curve of the court entrance to the Business Systems and Insurance Building as a background, this garden contains thousands of prize-winning roses of various colors. and provides a colorful resting place for the visitor. The building houses exhibits of banks, insurance companies and other business enterprises as well as a restaurant. Architects - Gugler Slee and Bryson.


Ceremonial Center Of New York World's Fair Of 1939
Title:
Ceremonial Center Of New York World's Fair Of 1939
Linen unused

Description:
The "Plaza of Governments", where distinguished visitors to the New York World's Fair of 1939 are welcomed. Formal ceremonies and exercises are also held here.



Communications Building
Title:
Communications Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. Symbolizing the progress made in communication through the ages the mural by Eugene Savage on the fa�ade of the communications Building combines with the twin 150-foot free standing pylons to provide a striking entrance to the exhibit area. The interior of this building dramatically portrays all phases of communication and also contains the "focal Exhibit" designed by Donald Desky. Architects - Francis Keally - Leonard Dean.


Corona Entrance
Title:
Corona Entrance
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair



Cosmetics Building
Title:
Cosmetics Building
Linen PM 1940

Description:
New York World's Fair. Erected by the Fair corporation this building closely resembles a container for the products of the vast cosmetic industry which is portrayed in the numerous exhibits within its walls. Motion pictures pageants and cosmetic shows daily fill the magnificent auditorium to capacity


Elgin Watch Observatory
Title:
Elgin Watch Observatory
Linen PM 1940

Description:
Petroleum Industries and United State Steel Buildings



Exhibit Area From Amusement Area
Title:
Exhibit Area From Amusement Area
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair


Federal Area Exhibit Buildings
Title:
Federal Area Exhibit Buildings
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. Built overlooking an imposing lagoon and one of the Fair's largest fountains, the Federal Building with its twin towers is flanked by eight structures comprising the Hall of Nations where exhibits of more than 60 nations will acquaint the visitor with the arts and industries of all the world. Designed on the classic lines of Greek temples this group provides an imposing terminus to Constitution Mall.



Federal Building And Foreign Pavilions
Title:
Federal Building And Foreign Pavilions
Linen unused

Description:
Lagoon of nations, court of peace, New York World's Fair.


Firestone Factory Exposition Building And Farm
Title:
Firestone Factory Exposition Building And Farm
Linen PM 1940

Description:
Typical American Farm. Firestone factory and exhibition building New York World's Fair. Within the Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building, the world's most modern tire is made with the world's most modern tire machinery. Visitors will see firestone Champion tire built, from raw materials to finished tire. In addition, there are may interesting and dynamic displays of all firestone products - tires, batteries, brake lining, spark plugs, rims, automotive parts, noise eliminators, plastics and Controlastic thread. Adjacent in the quiet of a typical American farm setting complete with babbling brook and domestic animals, modern farming equipment on Firestone Ground Grip Tires is displayed a pastoral retreat from the busy "World of tomorrow."



Firestone Singing Color Fountains
Title:
Firestone Singing Color Fountains
Linen unused

Description:
The famous firestone singing color fountain firestone factory and exhibition building New York world's fair. The high-light of your visit to the New York World's air is an evening concert under the stars beside the Firestone Singing Color Fountain. An ever-changing array of beautiful color combinations play upon the fountains in perfect harmony with the music. the rise and fall of the fountains and the coloration of the lights and controlled by delicate mechanism which is accentuated by the varying wave lengths of the music. The magnificent harmony of sound and sight creates an everlasting impression


Firestone World's Most Modern Tire-Production Line
Title:
Firestone World's Most Modern Tire-Production Line
Linen unused

Description:
Here the world's most modern tire is built with the world's most modern and most efficient tire machinery. Each step in the manufacturing process unfolds before your eyes - from the mixing of the raw rubber and chemicals and the Gum-Dipping of the Safety-Lock cords to application of the Gear grip Tread and the wrapping of the finished tire. You actually see how greater Strength and Safety is Locked into Firestone Champion Tires



Florida Building
Title:
Florida Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. Designed in the style of the original Spanish settlers of the peninsular this building symbolizes all the gayety and sunshine commonly associated with Florida Exhibits depict the citrus industry, the phosphate mines and the many other natural resources of the state including its charm as a vacation land.


Food Building Number Three
Title:
Food Building Number Three
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. The mural on the building 6000 square feet, uses as subjects the common foods of America combining related food in a single attractive group. Animated displays within this building graphically illustrate improvements in various phases of food within the last 150 years. Mural by Witold Gardon. Architects - Goodwin, Kebbon, Stone Snow & Ketchum Jr.,



Ford Motor Co.,
Title:
Ford Motor Co.,
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. Ford Motor Co., "Road of Tomorrow" Exhibit. New York World's Fair. The Ford Exposition comprises, besides the entrance hall, which is devoted to institutional exhibits, an industrial hall, garden court, and the "Road of Tomorrow," an elevated concourse more than half a mile long, prophetic of elevated highways which are expected to solve traffic problems in densely populated cities. The Ford Exposition was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague.


Foreign Exhibit Bldg
Title:
Foreign Exhibit Bldg
Real Photo unused

Description:
Lagoon of Nations. N.Y.W.F.



Fountain Display In Lagoon Of Nations At Night
Title:
Fountain Display In Lagoon Of Nations At Night
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair


Freedom Statue
Title:
Freedom Statue
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair



French Pavilion
Title:
French Pavilion
Real Photo unused

Description:
N.Y.W.F


General Electric Building
Title:
General Electric Building
Linen unused

Description:
General Electric invites you to visit its building at the New York World's Fair and to see 10,000,000 volts of manmade lightning, the "House of Magic," modern marvels of television, the "magic kitchen," interesting displays of products, and Rockwell Kent's great mural of mankind's progress toward "The World of tomorrow."



General Motors Highways And Horizons Exhibit
Title:
General Motors Highways And Horizons Exhibit
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair


General Motors Highways And Horizons Exhibit By Night
Title:
General Motors Highways And Horizons Exhibit By Night
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair



General View Firestone Factory And Exhibition Building
Title:
General View Firestone Factory And Exhibition Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. World's Most Modern tire Factory. Visitors at the Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building at the New York World's Fair may see the world's most modern tire made with the world's most modern efficient tire-building machinery. Here the new Firestone champion Tires are built, from raw materials to finished product. In the Exhibition Hall are dynamic displays of all Firestone Products and adjacent in a typical American farm setting is an interesting display of the most modern farm implements equipped with Firestone Ground Grip Tires.


George Washington
Title:
George Washington
Linen unused

Description:
George Washington by James Earle Fraser on Constitution Mall. New York World's Fair



George Washington By James Earle Fraser On Constitution Mall
Title:
George Washington By James Earle Fraser On Constitution Mall
Linen PM 1943

Description:
New York World's fair


Glass Center Building
Title:
Glass Center Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. The Glass Center erected at the New York World's Fair 1939 has a floor area of 25,000 square feet and contains the exhibits of three leading glass companies. Corning Glass Works, Owens - Illinois Glass Company and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. the tower. 108 feet high is constructed of blue plate glass and glass block.



Greetings From New York World's Fair
Title:
Greetings From New York World's Fair
New York (NY), Linen unused


Greetings From New York World's Fair
Title:
Greetings From New York World's Fair
Linen unused

Description:
The Royal Visitors, King George and Queen Elizabeth.



Hall Of Communications
Title:
Hall Of Communications
Linen PM 1939

Description:
Hall of communications New York World's Fair 1939. This view of the seventy-foot entrance façade of the great building, extending over an acre of ground, houses exhibits relating to means of communication at the 1939 Exposition. The structure contains a restaurant seating 500 and the communications "focal exhibit." Standing sentinel before it are two 160 - foot pylons slotted with shafts of light. Architects Keally and Dean.


Hall Of Fashion
Title:
Hall Of Fashion
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. Covering an acre and a half of ground, this unusual building houses displays of all types of fabrics. Here is the House of Fashion in apparel and accessories At night the two neon-tube towers add a colorful note to this unique building. Architects - F. g. Frost Sr & Jr. - W. W. Fenner.



Italian Bldg.
Title:
Italian Bldg.
Real Photo unused

Description:
N.Y.W.F


Italian Bldg. At Night
Title:
Italian Bldg. At Night
Real Photo unused

Description:
N.Y.W.F



Italian Pavilion
Title:
Italian Pavilion
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. The Italian pavilion is a beautiful product of architecture. A statue of the Goddess roam rises above its colonnaded front with a cascade of water foaming down the steps into a pool at the base of a monument to Marconi. The products of Italy are displayed and also the progress in recent years and the development of its colonial empire is pictured.


Japanese Bldg
Title:
Japanese Bldg
Real Photo unused

Description:
N.Y.W.F



Maison Coty
Title:
Maison Coty
Linen unused

Description:
Charm Center of the New York world's Fair situated at eh Long Island Plaza. Home of all that enhances feminine beauty and glamour. The "Magic fountain" surrounded by an arcade of famed perfumes - Coty "Air Spun" Face Power in the making - the Beauty Theatre - the Laboratory Museum - all herald the World of Beauty of Tomorrow.


Maison Coty
Title:
Maison Coty
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. Star Pylon and "Agriculture" by Mahonri M. Young.



Maison Coty Building
Title:
Maison Coty Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939


Medicine And Public Health
Title:
Medicine And Public Health
Linen unused

Description:
Science and Education Buildings. New York World's Fair 1939. Situated on Constitution Mall and overlooked by the Trylon and Perisphere, these buildings dramatize all phases of Public Health including the operation of the mechanism of the human body. The landscaped court with its unique spiral cascade is enhanced by the beauty of the murals and statuary with which this building is decorated.



Model Of The New York World's Fair 1964-1965
Title:
Model Of The New York World's Fair 1964-1965
Linen unused

Description:
"Peace through Understanding."


Morganton
Title:
Morganton
Linen unused

Description:
Morganton, home of the beautiful and exotic Mimosas that blossom profusely during June and July. Good golf, good fishing and beautiful mountain scenery. The Chamber of commerce, Morganton, North Carolina will gladly furnish further information. Morganton - "Gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains." I have enjoyed a visit to North Carolina's exhibit at the New York World's Fair. You must be sure to see it. For information about North Carolina write Governor's Hospitality Committee, Raleigh, North Carolina.



Netherlands Bldg. At Night
Title:
Netherlands Bldg. At Night
Real Photo unused

Description:
N.Y.W.F


New York City Building
Title:
New York City Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. Erected by the people of New York City, this building contains exhibits which acquaint the visitor with the various activities of the numerous departments of city government. The building occupying a plot of 163,750 square feet, is to be permanent and after the Fair will be used as a huge public sports palace. Architects - Aymar Embury II.



New York City Building
Title:
New York City Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. Erected by the people of New York City, this building contains exhibits which acquaint the visitor with the various activities of the numerous departments of city government. The building occupying a plot of 163,750 square feet, is to be permanent and after the Fair will be used as a huge public sports palace. architects - Aymar Embury, II.


New York City Building
Title:
New York City Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. Erected by the people of New York City, this building contains exhibits which acquaint the visitor with the various activities of the numerous departments of city government. The building occupying a plot of 163,750 square feet, is to be permanent and after the Fair will be used as a huge public sports palace. architects - Aymar Embury, II.



New York City Exhibit Building
Title:
New York City Exhibit Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. This is one of the Fair's great permanent structures, containing the exhibits of all the City Departments for the duration of the Fair. After the Fair it will provide every recreational facility including an ice skating rink, for the general public.


New York World's Fair
Title:
New York World's Fair
Linen unused

Description:
Standing before this structure as if guarding its precious contents, are two pylons each 150 feet tall. Having shafts of light slotted thru them. Extending well over an acre and a half of ground this great edifice houses exhibits of means of communication and the famous "Focal Exhibit." Indeed a building of interest and enlightenment.



New York World's Fair Donut Casino
Title:
New York World's Fair Donut Casino
unused

Description:
The Donut Casino in the Health Building, 300 it. From the Theme Center, on Constitution Mall. Also visit the Donut Palace in the Amusement Area near the Parachute Jump


New York Worlds Fair
Title:
New York Worlds Fair
Linen unused

Description:
the building is 25,200 square feet and its two great wings are 55 feet high. The Great fountain in he center court. 120 feet high plays a synchronous symphony of color. Sound and water."



Night Scene
Title:
Night Scene
Real Photo unused

Description:
Lagoon of Nations. N.Y.W.F.


Night Scene - Theme
Title:
Night Scene - Theme
Linen unused

Description:
A display color radiating into ground the Theme Center, with Perisphere in dazzling relief. World's Fair - New York.



Night Scene Constitutional Mall
Title:
Night Scene Constitutional Mall
New York (NY), Real Photo PM 1939 Jul-12


Night View Of Perisphere
Title:
Night View Of Perisphere
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. The unusual illumination of the perisphere with its rotating clouds simulate a planet floating through space. Eight mirror columns support the huge sphere above the fountains



Parachute Jump
Title:
Parachute Jump
Linen PM 1940

Description:
New York World's Fair A 250- foot steel structure with parachute in operation is one of the concessions in the Amusement Area of the New York World's Fair. Eleven of the chutes each seating two passengers are to be hoisted by steel cables to the top of the tower and then released to give the passengers the experience of "bailing out" from a winging plane. Insurance of "happy landings" is afforded by "stretchers" which keep the chutes distended, umbrella-like, and vertical guide wires which permit drops straight earthward without swaying. Shock-absorbers eliminate the impact of landing. The tower is to be the second tallest structure in the Exposition. Contract with International Parachuting, Inc. For this diversion device for Fair visitors was the first one to be signed for an amusement concession in the Fair.


Pennsylvania Building
Title:
Pennsylvania Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. Situated at the northern end of the Court of States, this building is a full size replica of the original Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The interior of the building contains exhibits dramatizing not only the history of Pennsylvania but also its important position in the industrial and cultural life of the nation.



Polish Bldg. And Tower
Title:
Polish Bldg. And Tower
Real Photo unused

Description:
N.Y.W.F


R. C. A. Building
Title:
R. C. A. Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair



Railroads On Parade
Title:
Railroads On Parade
Linen PM 1940

Description:
New York World's Fair. Railroad coaches were really "air-conditioned" in the days of the puffing Dewitt Clinton. Passengers got plenty of oxygen along with a vast amount of soot and cinders. The venerable train plays a dramatic part in "Railroads on Parade," one of the exhibits of the World's Fair of 1940 in New York.


Scene In Front Of The Medicine And Health Building
Title:
Scene In Front Of The Medicine And Health Building
Linen unused

Description:
Showing the A. T. & T. building to the left and the statue "Astronomer" by Carl Mills, New York World's Fair.



Scene In Front Of The Medicine And Health Building
Title:
Scene In Front Of The Medicine And Health Building
Linen unused

Description:
Showing the A. T. & T. Building to the left. And the statue "Astronomer" by Carl Milles, New York World's Fair.


Scene Of Helicline At Theme Center
Title:
Scene Of Helicline At Theme Center
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. Scene showing crowds around the Trylon and perisphere; also a comprehensive view of the Helicline from the Perisphere through the Trylon and Circling widely to the ground



Spiral Fountain
Title:
Spiral Fountain
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. A stainless steel fountain located in one of the many landscaped gardens which are a feature of the New York World's Fair. The court is flanked on one side by displays relating to Science and Education on the other by exhibits dealing with the vital subject of Medicine and Public Health


Star Pylon
Title:
Star Pylon
Linen PM 1940

Description:
New York Worlds Fair. The Star Pylon. A great shaft of varnished wood reaches approximately 130 feet into the air is located at the northern end of the Communications Building near the Long Island Railroad Station. Its natural wood finish and its unusual size make it one of the most attention - compelling structures in the fair. It is fitted with tube lighting behind shields, and the light, directed on the deeply fluted varnished wood surface, gives an unusual and pleasing illumination to the whole tower at night. The pylon is made of Douglas fir.



Sunshine Bakers Exhibit
Title:
Sunshine Bakers Exhibit
Linen unused

Description:
We just saw these little Sunshine bakers at the loose wiles Biscuit Co., Exhibit at the New York World's Fair! They're the cutest little midgets you every saw and they put on a grand show!


The Administration Building
Title:
The Administration Building
Linen unused

Description:
The Administration Building of the New York World's Fair is air-conditioned, scientifically designed and modern in every respect. The sculpture by Albert Stewart adorning the façade represents "Mithrana" above the towers of Manhattan. Her gesture is one of welcome. Architects: Stevenson, Studds, Holmes, Thompson, Williams, Kimball & Husted.



The Borden Company Exhibit And Rotolactor
Title:
The Borden Company Exhibit And Rotolactor
Linen PM 1940

Description:
New York World's Fair. This exhibit demonstrates the modern hygienic methods of milk production. Here are kept 150 pedigreed cows in "The Dairy World of Tomorrow," The major feature is the eclectically operated rotator on which cows are washed. Dried and mechanically Milked. Architects and designers, Voorhees, Walker. Foley and Smith.


The Borden Company Exhibit And Rotolactor
Title:
The Borden Company Exhibit And Rotolactor
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. This exhibit demonstrates the modern hygienic methods of milk production. Here are kept 150 pedigreed cows in "The Dairy World of Tomorrow." The major feature is the electrically operated retaliator on which cows are washed, dried and mechanically milked. Architects and designers. Voorhees, Walker, Foley and Smith.



The British Pavilion
Title:
The British Pavilion
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair


The Contemporary Arts Building
Title:
The Contemporary Arts Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. The Contemporary Arts Building at the New York World's Fair 1939 is designed to house the most comprehensive exhibit of works by living American artists ever assembled in this country. The exhibit comprises 800 works in painting, sculpture and graphic arts. The keynote of the exhibition is "Democracy in Art" and every artist in the country is given an equal chance to have his work represented at the Fair. This sketch shows how the structure looks at night against a background of fountains in the Lagoon of Nations. The architects are Ackerman, Lowenfish and Van Pelt.



The Electrical Products Building
Title:
The Electrical Products Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. The Electrical Products Building. New York World's Fair is rainbow of colors glowing across the World of Tomorrow. The Electrical Building is in the "Blue Sector" with a mural hint of "Wonders" displayed behind its portals. The oddly shaped pylon at the left is an outstanding feature of the building. Architects Walker and Gillette.


The Electrical Products Building
Title:
The Electrical Products Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. The Electrical Products Building, New York world's Fair is a rainbow of colors glowing across the World of Tomorrow. The Electrical Building is in the "Blue Sector" with a mural hint of "Wonders" displayed behind its portals. The oddly shaped pylon at the left is an outstanding feature of the building. Architects: Walker and Gillette.



The Firestone Tire And Rubber Company Building
Title:
The Firestone Tire And Rubber Company Building
Linen PM 1939

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. The Firestone Building is a striking example of modern architecture, with a great rotunda entrance surmounted by a brilliantly lighted fin, towering 100 feet in the air. It houses a modern tire factory, producing a finished tire every four minutes. Featuring the exhibit is an extensive farmstead which highlights the many and important uses of rubber on the farm. G. W. McLaughlin is the designer. C. D. Smith and Wilbur Watson and Assoc. are the architects.


The Food Building No. 2
Title:
The Food Building No. 2
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. Mural by Pierre Bourdelle depicts traditional harvest scenes. The mural is 40 feet high and nearby 200 long. Architects: Aspinwall & Simpson: Del Gaudio



The Food No. 2 Building
Title:
The Food No. 2 Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939


The French Pavilion
Title:
The French Pavilion
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair



The Giant Underwood Master Typewriter
Title:
The Giant Underwood Master Typewriter
Linen unused

Description:
Operating Daily at the New York World's Fair 1940. The Largest in the World. Operates Daily at the Underwood Elliott Fisher exhibit in the Business Systems Building at the New York world's Fair. This huge machine, weighing 14 tons, is 1,728 times larger than the regular Underwood Master. It required 3 years to build. Each type bar weighs 45 pounds and the carriage alone weighs 3,500 pounds. Letters are typed on "Stationery" measuring 9 by 12 feet, and the ribbon in the machine is 100 feet long and five inches wide. Two box cars were required to transport the Giant to the World's Fair.


The Goodrich Safety Arena
Title:
The Goodrich Safety Arena
Linen unused

Description:
In the Goodrich Safety Arena Jimmie Lynch and his dare-devil stunt drivers entertain World's fair visitors comfortably seated in the covered grandstand. In the Goodrich building is a "Rubber Wonderland" where rubber products are manufactured, tested and demonstrated. Located in the Transportation Zone, the Goodrich Safety Arena is across the avenue from the General Motors and Railroad exhibits and across the Grand Central Parkway from the Administration Building.



The Hall Of Communications
Title:
The Hall Of Communications
Linen PM 1939 Jul-12

Description:
This great building, extending over an acre and one half of ground will house exhibits relating to means of communication. The structure also contains a restaurant and the communications "Focal Exhibit". Standing sentinel before it are two 150-foot pylons slotted with shafts of light.


The Marine Transportation Hall NY World's Fair 1939
Title:
The Marine Transportation Hall NY World's Fair 1939
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair Twin ship prows, each 80 feet high (30 feet higher than the nose of the Normandie), give a nautical flavor to the main entrance. Sea effect is further to the main entrance. Sea effect is further enhanced by boat decks, 150foot mast and large basin for display of yachts and cruisers. Architects of the building were Ely Jacques Kahn, William Muschenheim and Morrison J. Brounn.



The Perisphere
Title:
The Perisphere
Linen PM 1940

Description:
New York World's Fair. The Perisphere rises over the edge of a 16 - foot serpentine hedge and huge flower bed at the World's Fair of 1940 in New York like a one ringed saturn - the ring in this case being the spiral ramp down which people are seen making their exit from the "Democracity" spectacle which is staged inside the great globe.


The Perisphere
Title:
The Perisphere
Real Photo unused



The Sealtest Building
Title:
The Sealtest Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. The unusual building houses exhibits dramatizing the research and quality control supervision of Sealtest System of Laboratory Protection. Demonstration units showing the manufacture of various products are included among its many exhibits. Architects - Skidmore and Owings


The Sealtest Building
Title:
The Sealtest Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. This unusual building houses exhibits Dramatizing the research and quality control supervision of seal test System or Laboratory Protection. Demonstration units showing the manufacture of various products are included among its many exhibits



The Singing Cascades
Title:
The Singing Cascades
Linen unused

Description:
Westinghouse Building New York World's fair a symphony of sound, light and water. At any given instant six tons of water. At any given instant six tones of water can be seen tumbling down the series of fifteen separate cascades. 120 feet high, it is one of the world's highest man-made waterfalls.


The Singing Cascades
Title:
The Singing Cascades
Linen unused

Description:
Westinghouse Building New York World's fair a symphony of sound, light and water. At any given instant six tons of water. At any given instant six tones of water can be seen tumbling down the series of fifteen separate cascades. 120 feet high, it is one of the world's highest man-made waterfalls.



The Trylon And Perisphere
Title:
The Trylon And Perisphere
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. The Trylon and Perisphere Key Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. The 200-foot Perisphere within which visitors view from a revolving platform suspended in mid-air a dramatization of the World of Tomorrow. Clusters of fountains screen the piers supporting the Sphere so that he great ball appears to be poised on jets of water. The 700 foot triangular Trylon at the left, a unique architectural form, serves as a Fair beacon. Architects: Harrison and Fouilhoux.


The Trylon And The Perisphere
Title:
The Trylon And The Perisphere
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. The most absolutely unique buildings at the Fair are the Trylon and Perisphere, the Theme Center. The Perisphere is a 200 ft. ball, the largest ever created by mankind. Inside the sphere the visitor views from a revolving platform suspended in mid-air, a dramatization of the World of Tomorrow. The 700 - foot triangular trylon at the left serves as a beacon for the Fair. Harrison & Fouilhoux are the architects.



The Waterfall At Electric Utilities Building
Title:
The Waterfall At Electric Utilities Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair


The Waterfall At Electric Utilities Building
Title:
The Waterfall At Electric Utilities Building
Linen unused

Description:
"Ah there skipper!" The personable young things amid the shrubbery are waving to an aviator friend passing low over the World's Fair in New York. The waterfall back of them one of the architectural novelties of the exposition pours down the side of the Electric Utilities Building. Visitors leaving the structure are delighted to find themselves passing through a miniature Niagara without becoming damp.



Theme Tower Of New York World's Fair Of 1939
Title:
Theme Tower Of New York World's Fair Of 1939
Linen unused

Description:
This massive structure, 250 feet high, dominates New York's $125,000,000 World Exposition. It contains a dramatic depicting the milestones of the part in the arts ences and sums up the kaleidoscope into a pattern for America.


Transport Communications Building
Title:
Transport Communications Building
Linen unused

Description:
Trylon And Perisphere Through Pylons of Maritime and Transport Communications Building. New York World's Fair



Trylon And Perisphere At Night
Title:
Trylon And Perisphere At Night
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. This breathless photo - extravaganza of lighting shows the towering Trylon and the perisphere at night. Buildings and even trees are alive with light. The trees get their fantastic incandescent effects from capillary mercury tubes (one of the newest sources of light_ hidden in the ground


Trylon And Perisphere Reflected In Glow Of Indirect Lighting
Title:
Trylon And Perisphere Reflected In Glow Of Indirect Lighting
Linen PM 1949

Description:
New York World's Fair



Trylon And Perisphere Reflected In Glow Of Indirect Lighting
Title:
Trylon And Perisphere Reflected In Glow Of Indirect Lighting
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair


Trylon And Perisphere Through Hall Of Communications Pylons
Title:
Trylon And Perisphere Through Hall Of Communications Pylons
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair



U. S. S. R. Exhibit Bldg
Title:
U. S. S. R. Exhibit Bldg
Real Photo unused

Description:
N.Y.W.F


View From A Minaret
Title:
View From A Minaret
Istanbul, Linen unused

Description:
Greetings from the New York World's Fair



Washington Statue
Title:
Washington Statue
Linen unused

Description:
Washington Statue, Trylon and Perisphere by night, New York World's Fair.


Water Stadium
Title:
Water Stadium
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair of 1939. The huge marine amphitheatre located at the north end of one of the lagoons in Flushing Meadow Park, entertains visitors to the New York World's Fair of 1939 with every variety of show.



Westinghouse Building
Title:
Westinghouse Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair. Westinghouse Building - Featuring the Time Capsule, the singing Cascades, the Great halls of Power, Science and Electrical living, Elektro the Moto-Man and Sparko his pup, the Battle of the Centuries, the Microblitzkrieg,, and many other outstanding Fair hits.


Where Stars Will Shine
Title:
Where Stars Will Shine
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair of 1939 at night. From the dome of the Planetarium on the New York World's Fair grounds visitors see a miniature sky studded with stars and planets. Intricate machinery moves the heavens at will



World's Fair Building Of The Y M C A Of The City Of New York
Title:
World's Fair Building Of The Y M C A Of The City Of New York
Linen unused

Description:
The YMCA Building at the world's fair is operated by the YMCA of the City of New York, as a meeting, resting and eating place for members and friends of the Association everywhere. Social rooms correspondence tables, information service and wash rooms are provided. Cafeteria and table service restaurants serve delicious food at moderate prices. Both men and women are welcome.


World's Fair Music Hall
Title:
World's Fair Music Hall
Linen unused

Description:
Demonstrating a new form in theatre construction, the Hall of Music uses the flowing lines of functional construction throughout. Two and a half thousand spectators daily fill its auditorium to hear and see many of the great musical presentations of our times.



World's Fair Music Hall
Title:
World's Fair Music Hall
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1939. Demonstrating a new form in theatre construction, the hall of Music uses the flowing lines of functional construction throughout. Two and a half thousand spectators daily fill its auditorium to hear and see many of the great musical presentations of our times.


Yucca Building
Title:
Yucca Building
Linen unused

Description:
New York World's Fair 1940. The YMCA Building at the World's fair is located on Hamilton Place, 60 yards from the Statue of George Washington. It is operated by the YMCA of the City of New York as a meeting, resting and eating place for members and friends of every Association in the world. Social rooms, correspondence tables, information service and wash rooms are provided. Cafeteria and table service restaurants serve delicious food at low prices. both men and women are welcome.





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