[Panoramic View of World's Fair Site]
Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: circa 1937
Material: height: 6 1/2 x width: 36 3/4 inches
Creator: unknown
Identifier: aql:5831 2006.15.1038WF39 QMOA
Description: A unique panoramic view of the New York World's Fair site as it was undergoing grading operations. The view, which looks northward towards Flushing Bay, highlights the excavation of massive amounts of debris and ash to make a secure, rolling terrain with bulldozers, constructions trucks, and cranes.
Creator :
unknown
Date :
circa 1937
Summary/Description :
A unique panoramic view of the New York World's Fair site as it was undergoing grading operations. The view, which looks northward towards Flushing Bay, highlights the excavation of massive amounts of debris and ash to make a secure, rolling terrain with bulldozers, constructions trucks, and cranes.
Subject :
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : 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 :
Queens (New York, N.Y.) Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Format :
height: 6 1/2 x width: 36 3/4 inches
Identifier :
aql:5831 2006.15.1038WF39 QMOA
Subject:
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Building
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : 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.
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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