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[General Electric Man-Made Lightning]

Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: 1940 Material: height: 2 1/2 x width: 3 1/2 inches Dimension: gelatin silver prints
Creator: unknown Identifier: aql:1026 2011.1.524WF39 QMOA

Description: Visible currents of man-made lightning inside the General Electric Building. Taken August 22nd, 1940.

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : unknown

Date : 1940

Summary/Description : Visible currents of man-made lightning inside the General Electric Building. Taken August 22nd, 1940.

Subject : Science; Lighting; Electricity; New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); General Electric Company; Production and Distribution Zone

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:1026 2011.1.524WF39 QMOA

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Subject:
Science; Lighting; Electricity; New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); General Electric Company; Production and Distribution Zone
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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