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[Soviet Union Pavilion]

Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: 1939 Material: height: 10 x width: 8 inches Dimension: gelatin silver prints
Creator: Siodmak, Alex, 1917-2006 Identifier: aql:1325 1989.56.20WF39 QMOA

Description: Visitors congregating near the Soviet Union Pavilion courtyard with large relief sculptures of Lenin and Stalin visible on the pavilion exterior.

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : Siodmak, Alex, 1917-2006

Date : 1939

Summary/Description : Visitors congregating near the Soviet Union Pavilion courtyard with large relief sculptures of Lenin and Stalin visible on the pavilion exterior.

Subject : New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Visitors; Relief (Sculpture); Pavilions; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924; Government Zone: International

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.) Soviet Union

Type : black-and-white prints (photographs)

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

Identifier : aql:1325 1989.56.20WF39 QMOA

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Subject:
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Visitors; Relief (Sculpture); Pavilions; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924; Government Zone: International
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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