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@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 8:23 AM

‘New York World's Fair 1939’
Poster/handbill by Albert Staehle. 1939.
#AlbertStaehle #NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair

@lronlacy.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 7:43 AM

Looking south down Constitution Mall; in the foreground, “The Four Freedoms” by #LeoFriedlander (1888-1966).
Photograph by #PeterCampbell.
#LeoFriedlander #FourFreedoms #4freedoms #NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair

@lronlacy.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 7:43 AM

#OTD in 1938
‘Scaffolding starts to cover the “Theme Center”, September 23, 1938’
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Preparations for coating the steel frameworks of the Perisphere, Trylon and Helicline, the Theme Center of the New York World’s Fair of 1939.
#NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair

@lronlacy.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 3:01 PM

In #SEPTEMBER 1938
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‘$900,000 Building at N.Y. World’s Fair uses Frick Air Conditioning’
'Frick Company, Waynesboro, Penna.' *Architectural Record*, September 1938
#airconditioning #Frick #NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair

@lronlacy.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 7:13 AM

#OTD in 1940
NYA (National Youth Administration) Exhibit at the W.P.A. Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. #blackandwhitephotography by Harold Corsini (1919-2008). September 12, 1940.
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair #NYA #WPA #TheNewDeal #HaroldCorsini

@lronlacy.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 6:46 AM

operate in the state of NY and the fourth built for service in the US, its carriages made of stagecoach bodies, riders sitting inside or on outdoor rumble seats.
👇 as recreated for the extravaganza *Railroads on Parade*, Railroads Pavilion, Transportation Zone, #1939NYWorldsFair

@lronlacy.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 6:47 AM

‘Work commenced in June 1936, and by October more than two million cubic yards of ash had been leveled from the dumps and distributed in low-lying areas.’
“Mount Corona” Ash Dump, Flushing Meadow, May 16, 1934
👉ALT
#blackandwhitephotography #NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair

'The largest of the industrial dumps was a massive mound, nearly 90 feet in height at its peak, dubbed “Mount Corona,” that makes an appearance in a famous passage from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: “This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke, and finally with a transcendent effort, of ash-gray men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” In the first four months of Fair site preparation, an estimated 400,000 fully loaded dump trucks carted soil. The around-the-clock operation paused only once—for a hurricane.' image and words quoted from tomorrows-world-publication.pdf *Tomorrow’s World: The New York World’s Fairs and Flushing Meadows Corona Park* The Arsenal Gallery. June 26 – August 27, 2014.