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Murder at the New York World's Fair

Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: 1987 Material: height: 7 5/8 x width: 5 1/8 inches, 265 pages
Creator: Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, 1909-1976 Identifier: aql:2635 1991.14.102WF39 QMOA

Description: Reprint of a murder mystery set at the 1939 New York World's Fair originally published in 1938 under the pen-name Freeman Dana. Since the Fair was not yet open, Taylor had to construct the world of the novel based on maps, newspaper articles and a preview tour of the Fair.

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, 1909-1976

Date : 1987

Summary/Description : Reprint of a murder mystery set at the 1939 New York World's Fair originally published in 1938 under the pen-name Freeman Dana. Since the Fair was not yet open, Taylor had to construct the world of the novel based on maps, newspaper articles and a preview tour of the Fair.

Subject : New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Murder; Fiction

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.) New York (N.Y.)

Publisher : Random House (Firm)

Type : Books

Format : height: 7 5/8 x width: 5 1/8 inches, 265 pages

Identifier : aql:2635 1991.14.102WF39 QMOA

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New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Murder; Fiction
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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