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

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

1939

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 19.0 x 23.6 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

PH2000:0575

• exterior view

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"

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

• architecture
• ingénierie
• sculpture

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