View of the Ford Motor Company pavilion at night showing a ramp and automobiles, 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, New York City, New York

People:

Forster Studio (photographic studio)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)
Robert Foster (role unspecified)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)
Walter Dorwin Teague (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the Ford Motor Company pavilion at night showing a ramp and automobiles, 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, New York City, New York

Date:

1939

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.0 x 23.1 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0572

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR / PUBLICATION PURPOSES, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO: / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" stamped, imprinted and numbered - in blue ink and by an unknown hand in red felt pen, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER STUDIO / Detroit / P 1217[-1]" [negative number is added by a second stamp; text in square parentheses is inscribed] labelled, dated, inscribed, and imprinted - in typescript and by an unknown hand in red felt pen, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.l. to c.r.: "FAIRY LAND COMES TO "THE WORLD OF TOMORROW [1939 / World's / Fair - / N.Y.] / Silhouetted against the darkness of night, the Ford Exposition Building at the / New York World's Fair is outlined with fairy lights. Admittedly, the most / beautiful building on the Fair grounds in the daytime, the architecture of the / building is actually enhanced when night spreads its cloak over the grounds. / The beauty of the Ford Building is heightened by the color and movement of the / 36 bright red, blue and yellow Ford-made cards which wind around the facade of / the structure as they traverse the "Road of Tomorrow." From this half-mile / long road of the future visitors obtain an unparalleled view of the Fair and / its surroundings. / dhl - 338, 339, 340. -0- 43" ["43" is by an unknown hand, in graphite] numbered - by an unknown hand, in white ? ink, in the negative, l.r.: "N.Y. 340"

Location:

New York (City); New York; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

walkway
ramp
automobiles
flag-poles
identification signs
night photography
exhibition building
world's fair
flags
automobile showroom

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Federico Bucci/
Gift of Federico Bucci

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