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@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:23 AM

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

@lronlacy.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:23 AM

#TheNewYorkerCover #AntonioPetruccelli #graphicartists #RadioCityMusicHall #DanceTheatre #Perisphere #Trylon #NYWorldsFair1939 #stagedesign #scenicdesign #choreography #ModernDance

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 8:01 AM

#OTD in 1939
(At the World’s Fair - all the world loves a hotdog!)
Cover of The New Yorker, September 30, 1939
Constantin Alajálov
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#TheNewYorkerCover #ConstantinAlajálov #NYWorldsFair1939 #hotdogs

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 7:43 AM

‘In 1939 - the New York World’s Fair’
Poster with illustration by Nembhard Culin (1908-1990). 1939.
#NembhardCulin #graphicdesign #NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYW #Perisphere #Trylon #Helicline

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 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.social Sep 15, 2026, 7:22 AM

1939 view, by Joe Senkendor, adding, to the left: in the distance, the ‘Singing Tower of Light’ at The Westinghouse Building and the ‘Excelsior’ statue above the New York State Amphitheatre
#NYWorldsFair1939 #Perisphere #Trylon #blackandwhitephotography #nightphotography
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Caption: ‘Transformed by Light: The New York Night, Chicken & Egg Public Projects, New York World’s Fair aerial view with Trylon, pylons, and sculptures, 1939. Museum of the City of New York, World’s Fair Collection.
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@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 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.social Sep 10, 2026, 1:03 PM

#OTD in 1940
Season 2 of the Fair - with War abroad the theme, ‘The World of Tomorrow’, becomes ‘For Peace and Freedom’.
‘Bombshells being moved into the exhibition of the British Pavilion’
September 10, 1940
#blackandwhitephotography #NYWorldsFair1939 #NYWorldsFair1940 #WW2 #UK

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 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
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#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.

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 6:47 AM

the grading and filling operation kept “an average of 450 men on the job, working three shifts. Eight steam shovels and four dragline derricks [kept] 100 trucks going day and night,” moving one cubic yard of fill every two seconds. ...’
#blackandwhitephotography #NYWorldsFair1939

Construction Progress Bird’s-Eye View, Flushing Meadow Park. July 1936.
New York City Parks Photo Archive
image and words 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.

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 7:44 AM

#OTD in 1940
taking in the NY World's Fair, season 2:
- BEFORE
- AFTER
Cover of The New Yorker, September 7, 1940
Perry Barlow
#TheNewYorkerCover #PerryBarlow #NYWorldsFair1939 #FlushingMeadows #Queens #NYsubway