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New York's 1939–1940 World's Fair (Postcard History)
New York's 19391940 World's Fair - Postcard History Author:Andrew F. Wood The 19391940 New York Worlds Fair promised a new age of global communication, nationwide superhighways, and suburban livingand it delivered. Crafted by designers such as Walter Dorwin Teague, Norman Bel Geddes, and Raymond Loewy, the twelve-hundred-acre fair in Flushing Meadows sold visitors a streamlined world of consumer good... more »steardrop cars and smoking robots, electric dishwashers and nylon stockingsmanufactured by companies such as Westinghouse, General Motors, and AT&T. In New Yorks 19391940 Worlds Fair, insightful narrative accompanies dazzling postcards, advertisements, and illustrations of Democracity, Futurama, the Lagoon of Nations, and the famed Trylon and Perisphere, recalling the promise and optimism of a fair that enchanted forty-five million visitors.« less