View of an entrance to the Ford Motor Company pavilion showing the sculpture of Mercury, 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)
Walter Dorwin Teague (role unspecified)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)

Title:

View of an entrance to the Ford Motor Company pavilion showing the sculpture of Mercury, 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 23.6 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0575

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[-2]" [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.l. to c.r.: "FORD BUILDING RISES ABOVE A SEA OF TULIPS / Framed by large shade trees and rising above a sea of brilliantly blooming tulips, / the Ford Exposition at the New York World's Fair presents this attractive view. / The heroic stainless steel statue of Mercury, looming above the entrance to / the Ford buliding, overlooks tens of thousands of tulips in riotous patches of / color throughout the Transportation Area. / FPW 196- -0- / (New York World's Fair - / 1939)" numbered - by an unknown hand, in white ? ink, in the negative, l.r.: "N.Y. 196"

Location:

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

Subject:

architecture
engineering
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
figure (representation)
windows
sculpture
tower (building division)
flag-pole
exhibition building
world's fair
flag
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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