Photograph from the New York Public Library image from http://exhibitions.nypl.org/biblion/worldsfair/moment-time-brink-war/story/story-war-and-peace

#OTD in 1940
Season 2 of the Fair - with War abroad the theme, ‘The World of Tomorrow’ becomes ‘For Peace and Freedom’.
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‘Empty projectiles represented “armor-piercing … anti-aircraft … and trench mortar shells" used by the British’ Sept. 10, 1940
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Photograph from the New York Public Library images from http://exhibitions.nypl.org/biblion/worldsfair/moment-time-brink-war/essay/essay-mauro-palestine

#OTD in 1940
Season 2 of the Fair - with War abroad the theme, ‘The World of Tomorrow’, becomes ‘For Peace and Freedom’.
‘Bombshells being moved into the exhibition of the British Pavilion’
September 10, 1940
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The reward still stands.’
Above: Scenes from the Pavilion of the British Empire in the summer of 1940
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#OTD in 1940
‘An advocate for modern and accessible design, Gilbert Rohde exhibited his furniture at the Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and New York fairs: [designers] #JohnVassos and #GilbertRohde at the “America at Home Exhibition Kitchen,”June 28, 1940’
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images, and words quoted, from https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/worlds-fair-and-world-war-national-numismatic-collection

In #MAY 1940
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'A coin marking the second season of the New York World's Fair, reopened in May 1940 under the new theme "For Peace and Freedom."
Historian Marco Duranti has suggested that the use of Washington's image at the ➡️

‘“Two little visitors” show off "Hello Folks" nametags on opening day, May 11, 1940’
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‘The Astronomer’, a statue by #CarlMilles. The projected ‘Hello Folks’ is a motto of the 1940 season, which sought to give the Fair more folksy, less sophisticated and ‘educational’, tone in hopes of boosting the already impressive attendance.
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Visitors arriving at New York World’s Fair. Picture postcard. Grinnel Lithographic Company. Ca. 1939. image from http://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/1939 World's Fair/

‘Model of IRT Entrance and Bowling Green’ Photograph of model, axonometric view of IRT entrance, Bowling Green, with "America At Home Building" and Town of Tomorrow in distance, New York World's Fair 1939. Gelatin silver print. 1937-1939. image from collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/1939 World's Fair/

‘Concession Stands on St. No. 4 at St. No. 20.’ New York World's Fair (1939-1940). Board of Design. Watercolor on mat board. Ca. 1938. image from collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/1939 World's Fair/

‘“Festiru Vestante Stetson” [Esperanto]. Stetson International Colors.’ Saturday Evening Post, May 1939. image from https://www.stetsonhats.jp/gallery01.php 7.1.20

The Gate - and concession stands (of similar design)
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