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[Correspondence, Roosevelt Island Development Corporation]

Collection: Collection on the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
Date: 1974 Material: height: 11 x width: 8 1/2 inches
Creator: New York State Urban Development Corporation Identifier: aql:2251 T2014.3.15 QMOA

Description: Letter dated December 23, 1974 from Nathan J. Maltz, Project Architect for the Roosevelt Island Development Corporation, to Raymond A. Lester of Lester Associates, Inc., regarding updating the Roosevelt Island portion of the Panorama of the City of New York. The Panorama is a large scale model of New York City originally created by Lester Associates for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair that later became a permanent exhibition in the Queens Museum.

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : New York State Urban Development Corporation

Date : 1974

Summary/Description : Letter dated December 23, 1974 from Nathan J. Maltz, Project Architect for the Roosevelt Island Development Corporation, to Raymond A. Lester of Lester Associates, Inc., regarding updating the Roosevelt Island portion of the Panorama of the City of New York. The Panorama is a large scale model of New York City originally created by Lester Associates for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair that later became a permanent exhibition in the Queens Museum.

Subject : Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.); City planning; Public housing; Models (Clay, plaster, etc.)

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.

Type : Correspondence

Format : height: 11 x width: 8 1/2 inches

Identifier : aql:2251 T2014.3.15 QMOA

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Subject:
Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.); City planning; Public housing; Models (Clay, plaster, etc.)
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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