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| The New York World's Fair, 1939/1940: in 155 Photographs by Richard Wurts and Others | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Wurts
Creator: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 211842
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 170
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0486234940
Dewey Decimal Number: 909.8230740147243
EAN: 9780486234946
ASIN: 0486234940
Publication Date: June 1, 1977
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Product Description
Photographic tour of best-loved world?s fair: the 700-foot-tall Trylon; the 200-foot-wide Perisphere; GM?s Futurama ride; 3-D movies, Elektro, a robot seven feet tall; artwork by Salvador Dali, Rockwell Kent, Alexander Calder, much else. 155 photographs. Map. Introduction. Captions. Index.
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| Customer Reviews:
 The World of Tomorrow.... January 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The New York World's fair, in 1939 and 1940, was New York's crack at selling itself and the nation's industry to the world. 3-D movies, robots, buildings designed to be the homes and business centers of the future fill the photos of this book. The idea of the fair, to give New York a new image was overwhelmed by the imagination and energy put into the fair by the artists, architects, industrial designers, and millions of others. The fair was about science and business and a better tomorrow. The book is almost like a guide to the fair, starting with a very detailed map and than exploring every area of the fair, building by building, exhibit by exhibit. New cars, radios, televisions, phones and the promise of a wonderful future was the theme. The fact that war was just around the corner just makes these dreams seem all the more fragile and lovely, like flowers we know are about to be crushed.
Looking Forward to Getting Back January 4, 2000
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
If one picture is worth a 1,000 words then this book makes bracingly clear the visual and visceral impact of the New York World's Fair of 1939. Indeed, it is a fine companion to "Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures)," a clever novel set in the New York World's Fair of 1939 also available from Amazon.
 To the reader from Rockville July 1, 1999
3 out of 22 found this review helpful
Dear Reader - I've been searching for books on World's Fairs and Expositions without much success. Can you tell me of some of the titles in your collection, the publishers and where you purchased them. Nice to know someone else has a passion for these events.
This book started my love with the World's Fair March 16, 1999
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
I received this book not long after it came out in the 1970's. It is a book of photographs from the Wurts Brothers who were famous architectural photographers of the period. It has many photos that are not in other world's fair books, including a number that were taken during the construction of the fair. Most of the photographs are very beautiful (but no color photos) and many pictures of architectural details are included. Very nice book. It was the first item in what became my world's fair collection.
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