Call Number: ARC.077
Extent: 6.14 Linear feet, in eleven manuscript boxes, two artifact boxes, and one oversize box.
The New York World’s Fair collection includes materials from the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. Both took place in Queens, N.Y. at Flushing Meadows Park, a site that was extensively redesigned and landscaped in preparation for the 1939 Fair. The collection contains pre-planning documents, preliminary site reports, maps to the grounds, public relations material, memorabilia, clippings, artifacts, invitations to Fair ceremonies, and individual pavilion guides, among other items.
Names:
- Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Long Island Historical Society
- New York World’s Fair (1939-1940)
- New York World’s Fair (1964-1965)
- New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Corporation
- New York World’s Fair 1964-1965 Corporation
Places:
- Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.) — Social life and customs
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Advertising — Tourism
- Art — Exhibitions
- Commencement ceremonies — New York (State) — New York
- Corporations, American — Exhibitions
- Dwellings — Maintenance and repair — Exhibitions
- Fairs — New York (State) — New York — Design and construction
- Family life — Exhibitions
- Food — Exhibitions
- Futurism (Architecture) — Exhibitions
- Health — Exhibitions
- Historical films — United States
- Horticulture — Exhibitions
- Industries — Exhibitions
- Insurance companies, American — Exhibitions
- Musicals — New York (State) — New York
- Office equipment and supplies — Exhibitions
- Postage stamps — Exhibitions
- Railroads — United States — Exhibitions
- Religion — Exhibitions
- Roads — Exhibitions
- Tourism — Europe
- Tourism — Middle East
- Tourism — Oceania
- Tourism — South America
- Tourism — United States
Types of material:
- Books
- Brochures
- Bulletins
- Bylaws (administrative records)
- Certificates of incorporation
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Guidebooks
- Magazines (periodicals)
- Maps
- Memorabilia
- Newsletters
- Pamphlets
- Publications
- Reports
- Souvenirs
- Travel guidebooks