View of the Ford Motor Company pavilion from across a river showing an automobile and fountain, 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, New York City, New York

People:

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

Title:

View of the Ford Motor Company pavilion from across a river showing an automobile and fountain, 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.: 19.1 x 23.5 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0574

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

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[-5]" [negative number is added by a second stamp; text in square parentheses is inscribed] labelled, imprinted and dated - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "FORD MOTOR CO. Exhibit / New York World's Fair - 1939" numbered - by an unknown hand, in white ? ink, in the negative, l.r.: "D-177"

Location:

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

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fountain
tower (building division)
bridge (built work)
automobile
flag-poles
identification signs
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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