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Title:
1609 - Hudson-Fulton Celebration - 1909
Divided Back unused
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Title:
1906 Exposition? Italian Art Nouveau
Divided Back unused
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Title:
1907 Jamestown Centennial Dixie Girl
Divided Back
Description:
Souvenir Jamestown ter Centennial Exposition Geo. D. Witt shoe Co., Lynchburg, Va. Dixie Girl representing the shoe that leads them all.
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Title:
1909 Portola Festival
San Francisco California (CA), Divided Back unused
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Title:
1964 NY World's Fair
Chrome PM 1965
Description:
New York World's fair 1964-1965 "Peace through Understanding."
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Title:
7up And DuPont Pavilions NY World's Fair
unused
Description:
At The World's Fair, N.Y.C. taken from across Fountains of the Fairs
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Title:
A Great Big Hello From The World's Fair 1964
Chrome unused
Description:
Rockefeller Center, showing RCA Building and Channel Garden New York, N. Y.
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Title:
Administration Building
Linen unused
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Title:
Administration Building
Linen unused
Description:
Official headquarters for the Exposition Staff, is actually the experimental laboratory for 'A Century of progress."
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Title:
Admiral Byrd's Polar Ship Chicago World's Fair
Linen PM 1933
Description:
"The city of New York". The famous ship which braved the ice packs and the Antarctic winter to carry Byrd and his crew to Little America, whence he flew to the South Pole. Fully equipped and manned by a competent crew among which are several members of the original Byrd crew. 1833 - 1933 Century of progress Chicago world's fair.
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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
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Title:
Agriculture & Manufacture Bldg's
Real Photo unused
Description:
Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition
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Title:
Albright Art Gallery
Private Mailing PM 1901
Description:
Pan American Exposition
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Title:
Alpine Garden
Linen unused
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Title:
Altar In Chinese Lama Temple
Linen unused
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Title:
Arab Stone Cutters, Jerusalem, World'S Fair
St. Louis, Post Card (Undivided Back) unused
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Title:
Army And Navy Club
Jamestown, Divided Back unused
Description:
Army and Navy Club, Jamestown Exposition 1907. Erected by the United States Government for the use of commissioned officers of the army and navy of this and other nations visiting the exposition.
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Title:
Avenue Of Flags
Linen unused
Description:
Chicago World's Fair. Looking southward showing the Hall of Science in the background
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Title:
Ballymaclinton (Irish Village)
Divided Back unused
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Title:
Beautiful Federal Building At Night
Linen unused
Description:
Chicago World's Fair. The three fluted towers represent the three branches of our Federal Government, Executive, Judicial and Legislative. The sides of the triangles are the Halls of Thirty States, whose flags and shields join with the interior court an outstanding accomplishment in modern architecture.
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Title:
Belgian Village - 1933 Chicago Exposition
Linen PM 1948
Description:
Ancient Belgium has been brought to A Century of Progress and reproduced in the Belgian Village a duplicate of the historic Church of St. Nicholas in Antwerp is there and seventeenth century burghers guard the portals
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Title:
Belgium Exhibits Bldg
Real Photo unused
Description:
N.Y.W.F
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Title:
Big Tex World'S Tallest Cowboy
Texas (TX), Chrome unused
Description:
BIG TEX, SYMBOL OF THE BIGNESS OF TEXAS AND THE STATE FAIR, IS 52 FEET TALL. HIS SIZE 70 BOOTS ARE NEARLY EIGHT FEET HIGH AND HE WEARS A 75-GALLON COWBOY HAT. A CHAMPION MIDWAY BALLYHOO EXPERT, BIG TEXT IS DIRECTING THE VAST CROWDS TO THE MYRIADS ATTRACTION OF THE FAIR, ESPECIALLY THE FAMOUS COTTON BOWL, WHERE 75,000 FOOTBALL FANS RESPOND TO HIS CLARION CALL.
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Title:
Birds Eye View of the Jamestown Exposition
Norfolk Virginia (VA), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1906
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Title:
Black Forest
Linen unused
Description:
Here is shown a typical German village, snow covered roofs with snow covered mountains in the background.
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Title:
Black Forest Chicago World's Fair
Linen unused
Description:
Here is shown a typical German village, snow covered roofs with snow covered mountains in the background.
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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.
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Title:
British Pavillion
Real Photo unused
Description:
Lagoon of Nations. N.Y.W.F.
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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.
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Title:
Byrd's South Pole Ship
Cleveland Ohio (OH), Divided Back unused
Description:
Fred Voight Chief. Great Lakes Exposition
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Title:
Café De La Paix Streets Of Paris
Linen unused
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Title:
California State Fair
California (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
UNPRECEDENTED IN THEIR EXTRAVAGANCE AND VARIETY, COUNTY EXHIBITS IN THE AGRICULTURE BUILDING ATTRACT THOUSANDS OF ADMIRING SPECTATORS AT THE CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR.
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Title:
Caribbean Pavilion NY World's Fair
unused
Description:
New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Art and handicrafts from the Dominican Republic, Bermuda, the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas are featuted here and are for sale in a gift shop. A supper club offers continuous live entertainment from 4 P.M. daily
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Title:
Carillon Tower Belgian Village
Linen unused
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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.
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Title:
Chinese Lama Temple
Linen unused
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Title:
Chinese Village Treasure Island
Real Photo unused
Description:
China's priceless collection of words of art in rare jade now being exhibited in Chinese village treasure island represents ten years of patient labor and the combined skill of master craftsmen the alter of the green jade pagoda a matchless gem of exquisite beauty is 50 inches in height 13 inches in diameter at its base and weighs almost seventy five pounds
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Title:
Christian Science Pavilion
Chrome unused
Description:
NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1964-1965 THIS PAVILION IS AN INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.YOU ARE INVITED TO EXPLORE A NEW WORLD OF IDEAS, A PRACTICAL UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AND MAN.
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Title:
Christian Science Pavilion
Chrome unused
Description:
NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1965 THIS PAVILION IS AN INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.YOU ARE INVITED TO EXPLORE A NEW WORLD OF IDEAS, A PRACTICAL UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AND MAN.
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Title:
Chrysler Building By Night
Linen unused
Description:
One of the attractive structures at the Century of Progress. Every detail of the construction of Chrysler automobile is here demonstrated, as well as the testing of material used and of the completed car.
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Title:
Chrysler Building By Night
Linen unused
Description:
One of the attractive structures at the Century of Progress. Every detail of the construction of a Chrysler automobile is here demonstrated, as well as testing of material used and of the completed car.
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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.
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Title:
Corner Palace of Varied Industries
St. Lous Missouri (MO), Divided Back PM 1904
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Title:
Corner Palace of Varied Industries
St. Lous Missouri (MO), Divided Back unused
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Title:
Corona Entrance
Linen unused
Description:
New York World's Fair
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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
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Title:
Court Of Electrical Group
Linen unused
Description:
A century of progress Chicago's 1933 International Exposition
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Title:
Court Of The Electrical Building
Linen unused
Description:
A century of progress
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Title:
Court Of The Electrical Building
Linen unused
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Title:
Court Of The Moon and Tower of the Sun
Linen unused
Description:
California World's fair on San Francisco bay. The beautiful Court of the Moon and its sweeping vista showing the Exhibit Palaces - and the Tower of the Sun together with languid pools and high shooting fountains are exceptionally inspiring
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Title:
D.St U.S. GRANT HOTEL ON LEFT
San Diego California (CA), Divided Back unused
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Title:
Dairy Building
Linen PM 1933 Jun-23
Description:
Displaying most modern dairy equipments such as: Automatic milking machinery, cream separators, ice cream and butter making machinery, laboratory equipment etc.
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Title:
Detail Federal Building
Linen unused
Description:
A century of progress
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Title:
Eldorado Super Jet
Chrome unused
Description:
FINEST IN THE AIR TO THE 1964-65 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR
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Title:
Electrical Building Full Illumination
Linen unused
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Title:
Electrical Group By Night, Chicago World's Fair
unused
Description:
Showing a small section of the Electrical Group, which consists of three sections located on Northerly Island. Housed in the Electrical Group is Radio Hall where may be seen radios from the earliest stages to the present day receiving sets
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Title:
Elephant Tower
Linen unused
Description:
Golden Gate International Exposition - San Francisco. One of the two Elephant Towers at the Portals of the Pacific, main gateway of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay. Foreground, one of many unique lighting elements. Background, Tower of the Sun.
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Title:
Elgin Watch Observatory
Linen PM 1940
Description:
Petroleum Industries and United State Steel Buildings
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Title:
Enchanted Island
Linen unused
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Title:
Enchanted Island 1933 Chicago World's Fair
Linen PM 1933
Description:
Enchanted Island by night a playground for children Chicago World's Fair. Here are old time and new amusement devices for children. Here young people can spend hours of pleasure while their folks visit the many hibits of the Fair
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Title:
Entrance - Hall Of Religion
Linen unused
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Title:
Entrance To Vacationland Building
Linen unused
Description:
Golden Gate International Exposition San Francisco. Entrance to vacationland Building decorated by maps and symbolic figures, overlool blossoming plants, trees, and colorful banners in the court of the Seven Seas at San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.
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Title:
Excursionists At Tijuana
Tijuana, Divided Back unused
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Title:
Exhibit Area From Amusement Area
Linen unused
Description:
New York World's Fair
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Title:
expo 67
Montereal, Chrome unused
Description:
LE PAVILLON DES ETATS-UNIS, sphere geodesique tronsparente de 250 pieds de diametre et 200 de hauteur , est situe das I'lle Sainte-Helene.LL a pour theme "L'Amerique creatrice. THE PAVILION OF THE UNITED STATES -on Lie Saine-Helene is a huge fransparent geodesic "skybreak bubble " 250 feet in spherical diameter and 200 feet high , Its exhibites show the creative efforts of man based on a life in a prosperous and outmated society.
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Title:
expo67
Montereal, Chrome unused
Description:
PAVILLON DE L'ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES PATES ET PAPIERS... , Une structure imaginative representant une foret stylisee et presentant deux spectacles remplis de droleries. THE CANADIAN PULP AND PAPER PAVILLION ... An imaaginative building representive a stylized fortest and presenting two funpacked stage shows.
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Title:
expo67
Montereal, Chrome unused
Description:
LE PAVILLON DU CANADA , le plus grand des pavillions nationaux, est situe dans lie Noter -Dame ,ou ilocdcupe une superficie de 11 acres .Il est domine par une immense payramide reversee qui porte le mon de Katimavik (lieu de rencontre , en esquimau). CANADA,S PAVILION covers 11 acres and is dominated by a great inverted pyramid called "Katimavik" (Eskimo for "Meeting Place").
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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.
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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."
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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
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Title:
Firestone Tires
PM 1933
Description:
The Firestone singing color fountain and multi-plane shadow sign. Only installations of their kind in the world. A century of progress. Beneath the misty fountain domes is a battery of colored lights. As the music fills the garden, the varying wave lengths come in contact with delicate mechanism, which connects the colored lights. The result is an ever-changing array of beautiful color combinations playing upon the fountains in perfect harmony with the music. The Firestone multi-color shadow sign is constructed of shadow planes behind which are thousands of incandescent bulbs, reflecting an ever-changing combination of beautiful pastel shades of blue, green, orange and yellow
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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
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Title:
Fireworks Display
Linen unused
Description:
A view from Northerly Island. Never in the history of pyrotechnics have such fascinating and colorful displays been created as are used at the Century of Progress. The fireworks displays are an interesting nightly feature
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Title:
Float Bronck's Treaty With The Indians
Divided Back unused
Description:
In 1639 Jonas bronco, after whom the Borough of The Bronx and the Bronx River are named, purchased land in that borough from the Indians was signed in his house.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Capture Of Andre
Divided Back unused
Description:
Major Andre of the British Army, was the intermediary through whom Benedict Arnold and the British commander-in-chief conducted their secret negotiations for the betrayal of West Point. Andre was captured by the Americans near Tarrytown in 1780 and was hanged at Tappan.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Dutch Doorway
Divided Back unused
Description:
This float represents a Dutch doorway in New Amsterdam, a prominent resting place for family and social purposes in those days.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Erie Canal Boat
Divided Back unused
Description:
The Erie Canal, connecting Lake Erie with the Hudson River, was begun in 1817 and completed in 1825. By this enterprise New York harbor was connected by water with the remotest regions of the Great Lakes, commerce was greatly increased, and New York, which formerly ranked second to Philadelphia in size, soon became the metropolis of the New World.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Frost King
Divided Back PM 1909
Description:
This float represents the mythical Frost King, who has control over the snows and the other elements of the winter. Around him are grouped his fairies, who have charge of the winds, the snows, the frost and the thaw. The Frost King is represented in his home directing the elements.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Gov. Leisler And The Huguenots
Divided Back unused
Description:
When William and Mary were crowned King and Queen of England, in 1680, Governor Nicholson fled from New York and Jacob Leisler assumed the reins of government in behalf of the people. Leisler was hanged as a traitor, but later the stigma was officially removed.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Legend Of Hiawatha
Divided Back unused
Description:
The Iroquois have a very pretty legend relating to their final union into a confederacy. They used to fight against each other until Hiawatha told them to call representatives from all the tribes to a great council to be held on the banks of Onondaga Lake. There he formed the Iroquois confederacy
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Legend Of Rip Van Winkle
Divided Back unused
Description:
The story of Rip Van Winkle - the good-natured but intemperate Dutchman, who drank liquor with Hudson's ghostly crew in the Catskill Mountains and slept twenty years - written by Irving and made doubly famous by Joseph Jefferson's impersonation, is probably the most celebrated legend of the Hudson River.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
Divided Back unused
Description:
The scene of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is laid in the valley of the Pocantico, just north of Tarrytown. The story tells of the nocturnal pursuit of Ichabod Crane by a "headless horseman" who carried his head under his arm and hurled it at Ichabod as he crossed the Sleepy Hollow bridge.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Nathan Hale
Divided Back unused
Description:
In September, 1776, when Washington desired to get information concerning the British designs Capt.. Nathan Hale volunteering to enter the enemy's lines. Disguised as a schoolteacher - his own profession - he went by way of Connecticut, the sound and Long Island to New York, where he was discovered and hanged September 21, 1776, regretting that he had but one life to give for his country.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Old Broadway Sleigh
Divided Back unused
Description:
The Broadway Sleigh represents a period long gone by in New York city, before river tunnels, subways elevated roads, electric trolleys or horse cars, when winters were more severe than now, when the snow was not removed from the streets, and when the omnibus in summer and sleigh in winter were the common modes of public transportation.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Order Of The Cincinnati
Divided Back unused
Description:
This Order of the Cincinnati was formed in "The temple" near Newburgh, in 1783, to perpetuate the memories of the American Revolution. It is composed of descendants of Officers in the allied American and French armies and is the oldest hereditary society in the United States.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Season Of Hunting
Divided Back unused
Description:
The Season of Hunting was what we call fall. At this season hunting was indulged in to the exclusion of all else
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Season Of Snows
Divided Back unused
Description:
The float entitled the Season of Snows represents the dance to propitiate the Great Spirit in order that he might mitigate the rigors of winter, which at one time killed many Indians.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float The First Sachem Of The Iroquois
Divided Back unused
Description:
The first Sachem of the League was the venerable Atotar-ho, a famous Onondaga chief. The Indian traditions represented him as living in a swamp, where his dishes and drinking cups were made of the skulls of his enemies. He was unapproachable because he was clothed with hissing snakes.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float The Five Nations
Divided Back unused
Description:
The Iroquois Confederacy was originally composed of five related nations, called the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas. In 1714 the cognate Tuscaroras, driven out of North Carolina, were received into the Iroquois Confederacy, which thereafter became known as the six Nations.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float Title Car United States And Modern Period
Divided Back unused
Description:
The Title Car representing "the United States and Modern Period" introduces the fourth division of the Historical Pageant and leads the spectators thoughts to the brilliant achievements of Nineteenth century.
1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration
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Title:
Float-Destruction Of The Statue Of George III
PM 1908
Description:
Hudson-Fulton celebration Commission Official post card No 31 Destruction of the statue of George III-After the repeal of the stamp act the people of New York erected in Bowling Green in 1770 a leaden statue of George III. After the declaration of independence the patients pulled the statue down, July 9, 1776, and melted it into bullets.
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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.
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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.,
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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.
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Title:
Foreign Exhibit Bldg
Real Photo unused
Description:
Lagoon of Nations. N.Y.W.F.
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Title:
FORESTRY BUILDING 1905 Lewis & Clark Centenial
Portland Oregon (OR), Divided Back PM 1905
Description:
OFFICIAL MAILING CARD LEWIS & CLARK CENTENNIAL 1905
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Title:
French Pavilion
Real Photo unused
Description:
N.Y.W.F
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Title:
Gateway To California'S International Expositipon Of The Francisco Bay
Linen PM 1940
Description:
This new $600,000 highway approach to the Exposition sweeps down and around Yerba Buena Island from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.Together with a memorable view of the Fair on its man-made island this graceful approach affords several new vistas of the entire Bay region
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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."
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Title:
General Electric Pavilion At Night
Chrome PM 1965
Description:
New York World's Fair 1964-1965. "Peace through Understanding "Progressland" is the theme of the General Electric exhibit. Under a huge, Glooming dome suspended from spiraling pipes the exhibit depicts the history of electricity from beginnings to the mighty band of nuclear fuslor.
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Title:
General Exhibits Building
Linen unused
Description:
Entrance Tower. Chicago World Fair
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Title:
General Exhibits Building
Linen unused
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Title:
General Houses Inc. House
Linen unused
Description:
Chicago World's Fair
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Title:
GENERAL MOTORS Futurama
Chrome unused
Description:
MAKES IT EASY TO OWN A NEW CAR. BESIDES IT SAVES HIM MONEY AND PROVIDES VALUABLE INSURANCE PROTECTION WHICH HE NEEDS
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Title:
General Motors Futurama Building
Chrome unused
Description:
New York World's Fair 1964-65. "Peace through Understanding" An eight and one-half acre setting with a 230,000 square foot structure surrounded by trees, grass, rock gardens and reflecting pools.
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Title:
General Motors Futurama Building
Chrome unused
Description:
General Motors Futurama Building New York World's Fair 1964-1965 "Peace through Understanding" An eight and one-half acre setting with a 230,000 square foot structure surrounded by trees, grass, rock gardens and reflecting pools.
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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.
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Title:
George Washington By James Earle Fraser On Constitution Mall
Linen PM 1943
Description:
New York World's fair
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Title:
Ggeneral Motors Building "A Century of Progress"
Linen unused
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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.
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Title:
GREAT BRITAIN PAVILION Expo 67
Chrome PM 1967
Description:
AN EXCITING GROUP OF BUILDINGS, REFLECTING THE MATURITY, THE STRENGTH AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE BRITISH NATION
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Title:
Greeting from New York The World's Fair City
unused
Description:
Left - Kennedy Circle Right - New York State Pavilion At The World's Fair, N.Y.C
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Title:
Greetings From Eastern States Exposition
Springfield Massachusetts (MA), White Border unused
Description:
The Exposition serves the ten North Atlantic States, but New England more intimately has taken a keen interest in the progress of the institution by the erection of state buildings on which is now known as the Avenue of States. The first state building to be erected was that of Massachusetts built by the Commonwealth through legislative act, in 1918, at a cost of $50,000. The land for state buildings has been deeded to the respective Commonwealths and the buildings and activities are administered by special state commissions. The use of native materials have been largely used in their construction.
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Title:
Greetings From New York World's Fair
New York (NY), Linen unused
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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.
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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.
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Title:
Hall Of Religion
Linen unused
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Title:
Hall Of Religion From Board Walk
Linen unused
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Title:
Hall Of Religion From Lagoon
Linen unused
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Title:
Hall Of Science
Linen unused
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Title:
Hall Of Science And Electrical Group From Skyride
Linen unused
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Title:
Hall Of Science At Night
Linen unused
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Title:
Hall Of The Western States
Linen unused
Description:
Golden Gate International Exposition. San Francisco. Hall of the Western States on treasure Island, scene of San Francisco's World's Fair. In the central court a gigantic relief map is displayed depicting the wonders and vacationlands of Western America and Canada.
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Title:
Hans Christiansen Darmstadt Expo, 1902
unused
Description:
Hans Christiansen Lady Vignettes Series
Small Crease in upper left corner
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Title:
Havoline Thermometer
Linen unused
Description:
Country of Progress International Exposition Chicago 1933. World's Tallest Thermometer. Twenty-one stories (218 ft.) high Shows temperature by neon light tubes. Sponsored by Indian Refining Company, Lawrenceville, Ill. Makers of Waxfree Havoline Motor Oil - best for all cars, winter or summer, because it contains no wax. Wax turns candle-hard with cold, water-thin with heat. Keep wax out of year motor! Waxfree Havoline Motor Oil is sold at a Texaco Stations.
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Title:
Hemisfair 68
San Antonio Texas (TX), Chrome unused
Description:
April 6 to Oct. 6. The General Electric Pavilion. In a futuristic building, General Electric presents the story of electrical living in the Southwest from the time the first lights blazed in the San Antonio Opera House to the present.
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Title:
Hemisfair 68
San Antonio Texas (TX), Chrome unused
Description:
April 6 to Oct. 6. The woman's pavilion. Women from throughout the Americas will join hands with industry in the Woman's Pavilion for Hemisfair 1968. The pavilion will invite every visitor to participate in celebrating Woman, her accomplishments and her contributions.
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Title:
Hemisfair 68
San Antonio Texas (TX), Chrome unused
Description:
April 6 to Oct. 6. Tower of the Americas, HemisFair's 622-foot theme structure. Rendering shows the proximity of the 1968 Texas World's Fair to downtown San Antonio.
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Title:
House Of Pacific Relations
White Border unused
Description:
America's Exposition 1935 May - 29 - November
California Pacific Exposition
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Title:
Hudson - Fulton Celebration Poster
Divided Back unused
Description:
September 25 to October 9 1909. The Official Poster of the Hudson Fulton Celebration commission represents the Spirit of Progress, holding in her hands models of the Half Moon and Clermont, and supported on either side by Hudson and Fulton.
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Title:
Illinois Host Building
Linen unused
Description:
A century of progress
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Title:
Illinois Host Building
Linen unused
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Title:
Illinois Host House
Linen PM 1933
Description:
Headquarters for the citizens of Illinois and Official guests of the State. It is located next to the Sears roebuck Building. Just south of the northwest entrance to the Fair
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Title:
Intra Mural Bus Chicago World's Fair
Linen unused
Description:
Within the grounds of the Exposition, visitors are transported by a fleet of semi-trailer type open buses, which accommodate 15,000 to 20,000 passengers per hour.
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Title:
Intra-Mural Bus
Linen PM 1933
Description:
Intra-Mural Bus with hall of science in background, Chicago World's Fair. Within the grounds of the Exposition, visitors are transported by a fleet of sixty semi-trailer 20,000 passengers per hour.
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Title:
Italian Bldg.
Real Photo unused
Description:
N.Y.W.F
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Title:
Italian Bldg. At Night
Real Photo unused
Description:
N.Y.W.F
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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.
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Title:
Jaffa Gate
St. Louis Missouri (MO), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused
Description:
WORLD'S FAIR
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Title:
Japan Trade and Industry Fair
Chrome PM 1951
Description:
Trade Hall, Electric Correspondence Hall. Kyoto Hall
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Title:
Japanese Bldg
Real Photo unused
Description:
N.Y.W.F
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Title:
Japanese Garden And Pavilion
Linen unused
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Title:
John Smith Making Toys For Pocahontas
Divided Back unused
Description:
John Smith making toys for Pocahontas. The worthy captain having, thanks to Pocahontas, miraculously. Capt. Smith remained with Powhatan for a year; they had sworn eternal friendship and the King offered to adopt and give him a portion of his domain for a Dukedom, but in compliance with his repeated expressed desire to return to Jamestown, he was finally permitted to do so. (See cards 4, 5, 7 and 14.)
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Title:
Lagoon And Island From Boardwalk
Linen unused
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Title:
Lagoon And Island From Skyride
Linen unused
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Title:
Lama Temple Night Scene
Linen unused
Description:
A Century of Progress Chicago's 1934 International Exposition The Oriental splendors enjoyed by the old Manchu Emperors never approached the magnificence of the Lama Temple by night at the World's Fair
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Title:
Last Meetings Of Lee And Jackson
Divided Back unused
Description:
This scene depicts a conference between Gen. Robt. E. Lee, commander-in-Chief of the Confederate army, and his ablest lieutenant, Gen. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, preceding the battle of Chancellorsville, May, 1863, and that terrible catastrophe which plunged the whole South into mourning, and so seriously affected the destiny of their cause. Gen Jackson, with his staff, had ridden forward in the dusk of evening to reconnoitre; on their return they were mistaken for the enemy, and a volley was poured into them, and the brave and great soldier, who had so often led them to victory, fell pierced by the men who would have given their lives for his. (See cards Nos. 54, 55, 57, 58 and 59.)
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Title:
Looking North From Kennedy Circle NY World's Fair
unused
Description:
At The World's Fair, N.Y.C. Showing Caribbean Pavilion, Republic of China Pavilion and Swiss Sky Ride high in background
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Title:
Main Portal and Exposition Tower Golden Gate Exposition 1939
Linen unused
Description:
Stately palms beautify and pedestrian crossings over motor lanes make safe, this main entrance to the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. The stepped-pyramid "Elephant Towers" guard the main portal and the 400 foot Central Tower. Beyond the gateway, guarded from troubled atmosphere by great vertical "baffles", lies the magic city of this World's Fair, distinctively new in its "Pacific" blending of old architectures with new utility. February 18th to December 2nd, 1939
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Title:
Main Portal Pan Pac. Int. Expo 1915
Divided Back unused
Description:
Palace of varied Industries The Pan. Pac. Int. Expo 1915. The panama-Pacific International Exposition- - San Francisco, 1915 Opens February 20 - Closes December 4.
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Title:
Maison Coty
Linen unused
Description:
New York World's Fair. Star Pylon and "Agriculture" by Mahonri M. Young.
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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.
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Title:
Maison Coty Building
Linen unused
Description:
New York World's Fair 1939
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Title:
Market Place Of Belgian Village And The Folk Dancers
Linen unused
Description:
The Belgian Village is at Twenty-third Street and Lief Erickson Drive, and portrays Belgium of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period. In the center of the village is a market place where folk dances are held. The buildings are full replicas of architecture four centuries old, except that of the fish market of Ghent, which dates back to 1650. Included are the gateway of Ostend, built in 1400, a city gate of mediaeval Bruges, and a French Gothic Church in Antwerp.
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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.
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Title:
Merrie England
Linen PM 1938
Description:
One of the largest of the villages, it truly typifies old English life in all its grandeur.
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Title:
Mission Guide Tree
Real Photo unused
Description:
Fraciscan Exhibit G.G.I.E
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Title:
Missions Of California
Linen unused
Description:
Mission Trails Bldg., California World's Fair on San Francisco Bay.
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Title:
Model Of The New York World's Fair 1964-1965
Linen unused
Description:
"Peace through Understanding."
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Title:
Montani Semper Liberi
Divided Back unused
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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.
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Title:
Murals - General Electric Company Exhibit
Linen unused
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Title:
Murals General Electric Company Exhibit
Linen unused
Description:
A century of progress
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Title:
N.S.G.W. Celebration
San Jose California (CA), Divided Back PM 1909
Description:
SEPT. 9th 10th 11th HER 60,000 PEOPLE WELCOME YOU
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Title:
Netherlands Bldg. At Night
Real Photo unused
Description:
N.Y.W.F
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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Title:
Night Scene
Real Photo unused
Description:
Lagoon of Nations. N.Y.W.F.
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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.
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Title:
Night Scene Constitutional Mall
New York (NY), Real Photo PM 1939 Jul-12
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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
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Title:
No More Beautiful Spot May Be Found On Treasure Island
Chrome unused
Description:
No More beautiful spot may be found on Treasure Island, site of the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco Bay, than the Court of the Flowers. In the foreground is the Girl and the Rainbow, beyond the Arc of Triumph and the Court of Reflections.
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Title:
North Elevation Machinery Hall
Divided Back PM 1914 May-26
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Title:
Northerly Isle From The Lagoon
Linen unused
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Title:
Nunnery Of Uxmal Maya Temple
Linen unused
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Title:
Ohio State Bldg., Jamestown Exposition
Divided Back PM 1907
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Title:
Oregon Centennial Exposition International Trade Fair
Chrome unused
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