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[$2500 model home built at the New York World's Fair; 1939: Living and dining room] – Vintage Print

[$2500 model home built at the New York World's Fair; 1939: Living and dining room], 1939 — historic photograph
[$2500 model home built at the New York World's Fair; 1939: Living and dining room], 1939. Historic photograph 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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This rare historic photograph captures [$2500 model home built at the New York World's Fair; 1939: Living and dining room] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A living and dining room in a $2,500 model home built for the 1939 New York World's Fair is the subject of this view. The fair, held in Flushing Meadows in Queens, promoted a vision of the modern future under the theme "Building the World of Tomorrow," and model houses like this one showed visitors how an affordable modern home might look and work. The record lists Richard Averill Smith as the photographer, though that attribution is unverified. The open layout of the room, with living and dining spaces sharing one area, reflects the period's interest in efficient, less formal domestic design.

Created / published1939
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by (?) Richard Averill Smith. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Building construction; Dwellings; Exhibitions.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,243 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151983

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