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New York World's Fair 1939

Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair.
Date: 1939 Material: height: 10 1/2 x width: 7 inches
Creator: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) Corporation Identifier: aql:2694 X2013.156.6 MCNY

Description: Depicts a globe with the Trylon and Perisphere superimposed with a Greek female figure behind the globe. Artwork was designed by John Atherton.

Collection : aql:5839; vital:1

Creator : New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) Corporation

Date : 1939

Summary/Description : Depicts a globe with the Trylon and Perisphere superimposed with a Greek female figure behind the globe. Artwork was designed by John Atherton.

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

Rights : This object is part of the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, 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 Queens Museum and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact research@mcny.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 : handbills

Format : height: 10 1/2 x width: 7 inches

Identifier : aql:2694 X2013.156.6 MCNY

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New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
Rights Notice
This object is part of the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, 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 Queens Museum and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact research@mcny.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.


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