New York World's Fair collection 1936-1940, 1960-1965

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New York World's Fair collection 1936-1940, 1960-1965

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The New York World's Fair collection includes materials from the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs. Both took place in Queens, N.Y. at Flushing Meadows Park, a site that was extensively redesigned and landscaped in preparation for the 1939 Fair. The collection contains pre-planning documents, preliminary site reports, maps to the grounds, public relations material, memorabilia, clippings, artifacts, invitations to Fair ceremonies, and individual pavilion guides, among other items.

6.14 Linear feet; in eleven manuscript boxes, two artifact boxes, and one oversize box.

Center for Brooklyn History (2020-)

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

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New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation

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The New York World's Fair of 1964-1965 was held at Flushing Meadows in the Borough of Queens on a site leased from the City of New York. It was conceived in 1958 by a group of New Yorkers who formed a non-profit corporation of some 300 members to provide the start-up capital. Eighty nations participated in the Fair which had the theme 'Man's Achievements in an Expanding Universe'. Robert Moses, who was associated with the earlier World's Fair in New York in 1939-1940, served as the president of ...