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[General Motors Building]

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:2208 2014.24.357WF39 QMOA

Description: Visitors waiting in line to enter the General Motors Building. The facade of the building reads "Highways and Horizons".

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : Gadaleta, Cosmo

Date : circa 1939

Summary/Description : Visitors waiting in line to enter the General Motors Building. The facade of the building reads "Highways and Horizons".

Subject : New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); General Motors Corporation; Visitors; Pavilions; Lines; Transportation Area

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:2208 2014.24.357WF39 QMOA

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Subject:
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); General Motors Corporation; Visitors; Pavilions; Lines; Transportation Area
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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