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[Model houses on exhibit at the World's Fair, New York] – Historic Reproduction

[Model houses on exhibit at the World's Fair, New York], 1940 — historic photograph
[Model houses on exhibit at the World's Fair, New York], 1940. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

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Model houses on display at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens, are the subject here, and the caption card lists dwellings and garages among the things shown. The fair built its exhibits around a "World of Tomorrow," and housing fit that theme, inviting visitors to picture how families might live in the years ahead. Miniature houses let fairgoers compare layouts and construction without walking through full-size homes. The record credits the photoprint to Richard Averill Smith, but that attribution and the other catalog details are unverified.

Created / published1940
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by Richard Averill Smith. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dwellings; Garages.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,221 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149013

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