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[Grover Whalen and Augusta Savage, The Harp sculptor]

Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: 1939 Material: height: 10 x width: 8 inches
Creator: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) Corporation Identifier: aql:2788 X2013.156.35 MCNY

Description: Augusta Savage presents Grover Whalen, president of the New York World's Fair Corporation, with miniature replica of her well received sculpture, The Harp, also known as Lift Every Voice and Sing.

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) Corporation

Date : 1939

Summary/Description : Augusta Savage presents Grover Whalen, president of the New York World's Fair Corporation, with miniature replica of her well received sculpture, The Harp, also known as Lift Every Voice and Sing.

Subject : New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962; Whalen, Grover A. (Grover Aloysius), 1886-1962

Rights : This object is part of the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, 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 Queens Museum and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact research@mcny.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 : Photographs

Format : height: 10 x width: 8 inches

Identifier : aql:2788 X2013.156.35 MCNY

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Subject:
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962; Whalen, Grover A. (Grover Aloysius), 1886-1962
Rights Notice
This object is part of the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, 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 Queens Museum and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact research@mcny.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.


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