The World of Tomorrow How it Will Look! New York World's Fair 1939
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Artifact Overview
The 1939-40 New York World's Fair assured a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. This booklet, created as an ad for the Royal Typewriter Company, featured the Trylon and Perisphere on its cover and showed an aerial view of the fairgrounds--claiming this is how the world of tomorrow would look.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Booklet
Date Made
03 August 1938
Subject Date
1939-1940
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
at Henry Ford Museum in Your Place in Time
Object ID
85.127.207
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Estate of Stanley H. Cousineau.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 8.5 in
Width: 11 in
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