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[Crowd surrounds television at RCA exhibit at 1939 World's Fair] – Historic Print

[Crowd surrounds television at RCA exhibit at 1939 World's Fair], 1939 — historic photograph
[Crowd surrounds television at RCA exhibit at 1939 World's Fair], 1939. Historic photograph from the World's Fairs 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Crowd surrounds television at RCA exhibit at 1939 World's Fair] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The crowd in this picture is pressed around one of the television sets that the Radio Corporation of America showed at the 1939 New York World's Fair, in Flushing Meadows, Queens. RCA's pavilion was among the fair's most popular attractions, and its televisions were a novelty for most visitors, since regular broadcasting had only just begun in the New York area that year. The photograph comes from the New York World-Telegram and the Sun newspaper collection, a large body of press pictures now held by the Library of Congress, and it captures the fair's crowds as much as the machine itself.

Created / published1939
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesNew York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsRadio Corporation of America--Products--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. New York World's Fair--(1939-1940)--Exhibitions & displays.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,246 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-192502

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