Borden Company 1939 New York World's Fair Collection
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Borden Company
- Dates:
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1939
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1063
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Hillis, Alice Rogers
- Dates:
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1939
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1 motion picture film (350 feet, silent, color (Kodachrome), camera original reversal, 16mm )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0531
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Home movie footage documenting the 1939 World's Fair, shot by Alice Rogers Hillis.
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Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1939
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0134
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Newspaper articles, fair schedules and maps, exhibit brochures,and pictures of the Fair grounds.
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Norton, Robert H.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Kass, Marcia
- Dates:
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1876
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (2 folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0825
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An artificial collection of ephemera from World's Fairs, intended as a growing repository for such miscellany from multiple sources. The initial donation consists of a season ticket, a booklet of souvenir tickets, and one menu from the 1939 New York World's Fair. The 2010 addendum contains eleven graphic works relating to World's Fairs. Eight of th...
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Pezzano, John A.
Pezzano, Frank J., 1908-1983
- Dates:
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1939-1940
- Size:
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1 Item
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0592
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The film, titled "Memories of the New York World's Fair" by filmmaker Frank J. Pezzano documents the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Pezzano edited the film and included hand-drawn and typed intertitles identifying the various locations and activities he filmed.
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Orth, Edward J.
Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization
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1900 - 1989
- Size:
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130 Cubic feet (417 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0560
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York. Also includes materials on other world's fairs, the Exhibition Collectors Historical Organization (ECHO), New York City tourism and Disney.
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Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Dates:
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1939
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3494
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The Time Capsule is a vessel of Cupaloy containing objects and records of our time preserved for the people of the distant future. It is deposited fifty feet beneath the surface of the earth on the site of the Westinghouse Building at the New York World's Fair, 1939.
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Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, 1899-1984 (policeman)
Stauffer, Clyde Weaver, Mrs.
- Dates:
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1935 - 1940
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0139
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of a disassembled photograph album, featuring images from the travels of Stauffer and his wife.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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1851-1965
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9.09 Cubic feet (consisting of 17.5 boxes, 1 folder, 19 oversize folders, 12 map case folders, 3 flat boxes (1 full, 2 partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.World
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: World Expositions forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Winfield, Armand G.
- Dates:
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1960 - 1980
- Size:
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18 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1271
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The eleven boxes contain documentation relating to project files including business correspondence, invoices, sketches, contracts and agreements, research materials, brochures, photographs, slides and models. This collection, which includes some biographical material and which is specifically related to the design process and to the use of plastic...