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[Building the Panorama]

Collection: Collection on the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
Date: circa 1963 Material: height: 8 x width: 10 inches Dimension: gelatine silver prints
Creator: Lester Associates Inc. Identifier: aql:2130 T2004.1.153WF64 QMOA

Description: Workers using power tools on a large wooden platform during the construction of the Panorama of the City of New York, a scale model installed in the New York City Building for the 1964-1965 World's Fair. The Panorama was built by a team of more than 100 people working for the architectural model makers Raymond Lester & Associates over the course of three years. Back of photograph has a Lester Associates stamp reading "Job # 6140".

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : Lester Associates Inc.

Date : circa 1963

Summary/Description : Workers using power tools on a large wooden platform during the construction of the Panorama of the City of New York, a scale model installed in the New York City Building for the 1964-1965 World's Fair. The Panorama was built by a team of more than 100 people working for the architectural model makers Raymond Lester & Associates over the course of three years. Back of photograph has a Lester Associates stamp reading "Job # 6140".

Subject : New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Building

Rights : This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.

Coverage : West Nyack (N.Y.)

Type : black-and-white prints (photographs)

Format : height: 8 x width: 10 inches; gelatine silver prints

Identifier : aql:2130 T2004.1.153WF64 QMOA

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Subject:
New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.); Building
Rights Notice
This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.


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