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New York World's fair, the world of tomorrow, 1939 / Binder – Vintage Print

New York World's fair, the world of tomorrow, 1939 / Binder, New York : Grinnelll Litho. Co., 1939. — vintage poster
New York World's fair, the world of tomorrow, 1939 / Binder, New York : Grinnelll Litho. Co., 1939.. Vintage poster from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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New York World's fair, the world of tomorrow, 1939 / Binder comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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New York World's fair, the world of tomorrow, 1939 / Binder

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A slogan, "The World of Tomorrow," sets this 1939 poster apart from the many fair pictures on the board. The New York World's Fair opened that April in Flushing Meadows, Queens, where its Trylon and Perisphere became the defining symbols of a streamlined future. The design is credited to Joseph Binder, an Austrian-born graphic artist who had moved to the United States only a few years earlier, and the sheet carries the fair's own copyright line. It is worth noting how the poster offered a forward-looking vision to a country still recovering from the Great Depression.

Created / publishedNew York : Grinnelll Litho. Co., 1939.
Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 51 x 35 cm.
NotesColor poster by Joseph Binder, 1898- . Copyrighted by N.Y.W.F. Promotional goal: U.S. K6. 1939. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Title.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,039 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176704

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