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From the Wall at the Perisphere

Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: 1939 Material: height: 2 1/2 x width: 3 1/2 inches Dimension: gelatin silver prints
Creator: unknown Identifier: aql:1012 2011.1.501WF39 QMOA

Description: View from Perisphere of Theme Center walkway and United States Steel and General Electric Buildings in the background. Photograph taken June 17, 1939 .

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : unknown

Date : 1939

Summary/Description : View from Perisphere of Theme Center walkway and United States Steel and General Electric Buildings in the background. Photograph taken June 17, 1939 .

Subject : Visitors; New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Walkways; Trylon and Perisphere (New York, N.Y.); General Electric Company; United States Steel Company; Theme Center

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 : photographic prints

Format : height: 2 1/2 x width: 3 1/2 inches; gelatin silver prints

Identifier : aql:1012 2011.1.501WF39 QMOA

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Subject:
Visitors; New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Walkways; Trylon and Perisphere (New York, N.Y.); General Electric Company; United States Steel Company; Theme Center
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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