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Title: New York World's Fair Collection
Dates: 1939-1940
Collection number: Mss 244
Collection Size:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The collection contains brochures, pamphlets, and other ephemera relating to the fair and its exhibits.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages:
English
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
New York World's Fair Collection. Mss 244. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Transfer from MIL, 2006.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains brochures, pamphlets, and other ephemera relating to the fair and its exhibits, and to companies such
as Bell Telephone Laboratories, F.A.O. Schwarz, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, H. J. Heinz Company, Lionel Corporation,
Pennsylvania Railroad, and Texaco; also brochures, with house plans, for "The Town of Tomorrow."
There is no container list for this collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)