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#OTD in 1939
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Sneak preview of the Fair for Gottscho-Schleisner Photography
DuPont Building, Production & Distribution Zone, #NYWorldsFair1939, designed by #WalterDorwinTeague (1883-1960) and staff.
#GottschoSchleisner, Inc. January 11, 1939
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‘DuPont Wonder World of Chemistry’ The Dupont Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Designed by #WalterDorwinTeague and staff. Photograph by Teague staff member artist, industrial designer and photographer C. Stowe Myers (1906-1995).
#DuPont #plastics #NYWorldsFair1939
DUSK ‘A model of New York as the 'City of Light,' in the Consolidated Edison Pavilion, at the 1939 World's Fair. It was the largest diorama up to that time. The fourteen-minute show presented the illusion of watching New York City through a twenty-four-hour cycle.’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5059525/Rare-color-photos-1939-World-s-Fair.html
New York World’s Fair of 1939. Nearly as long as a city block, higher than a three-story building, the diorama is a colored, lighted, animated architectural model of the New York metropolitan area.’
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#OTD in 1935
‘The Style Sensation of the Radio World is Under These Covers
Designed by. . . #WalterDorwinTeague [1883-1960]’
‘Unveiling September 18 at the National Electrical & Radio Exposition ... Grand Central Palace [New York City]’
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Sparton. 1935.
Main attraction of this Pavilion - and one of the highlights of the Fair - was ‘The City of Light’, an exhibit created by eminent industrial designer, #WalterDorwinTeague together with architect #FrankJRoorda.
(Photo #FrankNavara)
Here visitors seated in a theatre looked up to ➡️
Photo NY Public Library ‘An enormous crowd at the Fair’s reception headquarters, Perylon Hall, greeted them before they embarked on an official tour of the grounds, designed to last three hours. Every building that they visited during their seven scheduled stops was closed to the general public and 60 motorcycle policemen and a procession of 25 cars carefully escorted them through the grounds. The Fair’s PR Department announced that, “King George, according to early advices, will be dressed in a morning coat and top hat. Queen Elizabeth will wear a white afternoon frock and brimmed hat.” George VI was the first British monarch to enter the U.S.’ http://exhibitions.nypl.org/biblion/worldsfair/moment-time-brink-war/story/story-war-and-peace
At the Perylon Hall, ‘The King and Queen take a moment to sign the Fair's official guestbook’ before a gala luncheon held in the U.S. Federal Building on the Court of Peace, where even the dishes and glasses were designed by #WalterDorwinTeague.
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#KingGeorgeVI
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At that time such passenger rocket travel was also taken seriously by the American Interplanetary Society - as a first step towards #spacetravel (1931) and was presented in an exhibit designed by #WalterDorwinTeague at the #NewYorkWorldFair1939.
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#OTD in 1939
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Sneak preview of the Fair for Gottscho-Schleisner Photography
DuPont Building, Production & Distribution Zone, #NYWorldsFair1939, designed by #WalterDorwinTeague (1883-1960) and staff.
#GottschoSchleisner, Inc. January 11, 1939
#blackandwhitephotography
