The Du Pont Chemistry Building

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Stock #: 260425
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
Publisher: Miller Art Co. Inc
Postmark: 1939
PM City: New Rochelle
PM State: NY
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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"The Wonder World of Chemistry" erected at the New York World's Fair 1939 by E. I. du Pont deNemours & Company houses a series of dramatizations of the contributions of chemistry to every phase of social and industrial life. The exhibit was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague; architectural plans drawn by A. M. Erickson. Among the displays is a glorified laboratory demonstrating the transformation of commonplace substances into luxuries. Colorful liquids circulate constantly in the illuminated column in the court to represent a modern chemical appliance

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