Finding Aid for the New York World Fair 1940 album, 1940 2006.R.6

Beth Ann Guynn and Amy Sloper
Special Collections
2010
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: New York World Fair 1940 album
Identifier/Call Number: 2006.R.6
Physical Description: 1 album(s) (23 photographic prints)
Date: 1940
Abstract: Album of hand-colored photographs by an unidentified amateur photographer documenting a stay in New York City in 1940.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in English.

Arrangement

Arranged in a single series: Series I. New York World Fair 1940 album, 1940.

Access

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Scope and Content of Collection

The album of hand-colored gelatin silver snapshots taken by an unidentified photographer documents a stay in New York City in 1940. The majority of the photographs document buildings and installations at the New York World's Fair, while the remaining photographs include various sites in Manhattan.
The 19 images of the New York World's Fair, which ran for two summers, from 30 April 1939 to 31 October 1939 and from 11 May 1940 to 27 October 1940, presumably document the fair as it existed in 1940. Included are the Ford Building, General Motors Building, General Electric Building, Sheffield Building, and the Firestone Building. Other installations and exhibits featured are the Perisphere, Constitutional Mall, Billy Rose's Aquacade, and various statues on the midways.
The album concludes with views of Grant's tomb, Riverside Church, and the Brooklyn Bridge, together with a snapshot of three women standing on the deck of a ship.
The album is string bound with textured black paperboard covers with the word "Photographs" gilt-stamped on the front cover. The title of the album is taken from the handwritten caption on the first page of the album. The photographs are mounted with photo corners, two snapshots to a page, excepting the first page which bears a single snapshot. Each photograph is identified by a handwritten caption in white ink, three of which include the date 1940.

Acquisition Information

Received in 2006 as a gift of Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Denenberg.

Preferred Citation

New York World Fair 1940 album, 1940, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2006.R.6
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2006r6

Processing History

Processed and cataloged by Amy Sloper and Beth Ann Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).

Biographical/Historical Note

The photographs in this album were taken, hand-colored, and compiled taken by an unknown visitor to the 1940 New York World's Fair.

Publication Rights

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)
Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
General Grant National Memorial (New York, N.Y.)
Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)
General Motors Corporation
Exhibition buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
New York World's Fair (1939-1940)
Hand coloring
Snapshots -- United States -- 20th century
Gelatin silver prints -- New York (State) -- 20th century
Ford Motor Company
Photograph albums -- United States -- 20th century

box 1

New York World Fair 1940 album, Series I. 1940

Arrangement

In original order.
box 1, item Front cover

Front cover 2006.R.6-fc

box 1, Page 1 recto

New York World Fair 1940 2006.R.6-1r

box 1, Page 2 recto

Page 2 2006.R.6-2r

box 1, Page 2 recto-1

Looking beneath Perisphere 2006.R.6-2r.1

box 1, Page 2 recto-2

Constitutional Mall 2006.R.6-2r.2

box 1, Page 3 recto

Page 3 2006.R.6-3r

box 1, Page 3 recto-1

Ford Building 2006.R.6-3r,1

box 1, Page 3 recto-2

Perisphere 2006.R.6-3r.2

box 1, Page 4 recto

Page 4 2006.R.6-4r

box 1, Page 4 recto-1

General Motors Building 2006.R.4r.1

box 1, Page 4 recto-2

Back of General Motors Building 2006.R.6-4r.2

box 1, Page 5 recto

Page 5 2006.R.6-5r

box 1, Page 5 recto-1

Electric Building 2006.R.6-5r.1

box 1, Page 5 recto-2

Sheffield Building 2006.R.6-5r.2

box 1, Page 6 recto

Page 6 2006.R.6-65

Scope and Contents

Caption for page: Billy Rose's Aquacade.
box 1, Page 6 recto-1

Scene 4, "World Fair, 1940" 2006.R.6-6r.1

box 1, Page 6 recto-2

Scene 4, "World Fair, 1940" 2006.R.6-6r.2

box 1, Page 7 recto

Page 7 2006.R.6-7r

box 1, Page 7 recto-1

Statue near General Motors 2006.R.6-7r.1

box 1, Page 7 recto-2

Statue near Entrance 2006.R.6-7r.2

box 1, Page 8 recto

Page 8 2006.R.6-6r

box 1, Page 8 recto-1

Firestone Building 2006.R.6-8r.1

box 1, Page 8 recto-2

Statue of Washington 2006.R.6-8r.2

box 1, Page 9 recto

Page 9 2006.R.6-9r

Scope and Contents

Caption for page: Billy Rose's Aquacade.
box 1, Page 9 recto-1

Scene 2, "Paris World Fair" 2006.R.6-9r.1

box 1, Page 9 recto-2

Scene 3 "Chicago World Fair" 2006.R.6-9r.2

box 1, Page 10 recto

Page 10 2006.R.6-10r

box 1, Page 10 recto

Fountains on Constitutional Mall 2006.R.6-18

box 1, Page 10 recto

Lagoon of Nations 2006.R.6-19

box 1, Page 11 recto

Page 11 2006.R.6-11r

box 1, Page 11 recto-1

Grant's Tomb 2006.R.6-11r.1

box 1, Page 11 recto-2

Riverside Church 2006.R.6-11r.2

box 1, Page 12 recto

Page 12 2006.R.6-12r

box 1, Page 12 recto-1

Brooklyn Bridge 2006.R.6-12r-1

box 1, Page 12 recto-2

Edith, Dot, and Fannie 2006.R.6-12r.2

box 1, Item Back cover

Back cover 2006.R.6-bc