Ford Exposition Building, New York World's Fair, 1939
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Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague to create its exhibition building. Renowned architect Albert Kahn completed Teague's modern, eye-catching design. This photograph shows part of the Ford building at the fairgrounds in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
Ford Motor Company, a major participant in the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, hired industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague to create its exhibition building. Renowned architect Albert Kahn completed Teague's modern, eye-catching design. This photograph shows part of the Ford building at the fairgrounds in New York City's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
10 June 1939
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.232.1341
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11 in
Inscriptions
Verso: 375
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