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[Westinghouse Pavilion]

Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: circa 1939 Material: height: 3 3/8 x width: 5 inches
Creator: Gadaleta, Cosmo Identifier: aql:2200 2014.24.302WF39 QMOA

Description: Visitors resting on benches next to the Westinghouse Pavilion. The building's courtyard featured a large tower sculpture made of steel wires connected to large circular forms.

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : Gadaleta, Cosmo

Date : circa 1939

Summary/Description : Visitors resting on benches next to the Westinghouse Pavilion. The building's courtyard featured a large tower sculpture made of steel wires connected to large circular forms.

Subject : New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Benches; Visitors; Pavilions; Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 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 : black-and-white negatives

Format : height: 3 3/8 x width: 5 inches

Identifier : aql:2200 2014.24.302WF39 QMOA

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Subject:
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Benches; Visitors; Pavilions; Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 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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