Main entry:

Hare, Elizabeth Sage, artist.

Title & Author:

The world of tomorrow : New York World's Fair, 1789-1939 / Elizabeth Sage Hare & Warren Chappell.

Description:

1 tunnel book : color illustrations ; 13 x 17 cm + 1 envelope (15 x 19 cm)

Notes:
Title from upper board.
A telescopic peepshow composed of six die-cut color cardboard panels (including upper and lower covers) attached at top and bottom edges with accordion-folded tissue paper. A hole in the center of the upper board reveals a single view incorporating the chromolithographic illustrations of all six panels. Issued in a buff-colored paper envelope marked NYWF Lic. 750. Upper board is illustrated with a kneeling George Washington and three others in colonial costumes being shown the future (the central walk of the New York World's Fair) through the center peep hole by a Harlequin figure. The tunnel view shows the 1939 New York World's Fair Grand Concourse, Trilon, and Perisphere.

Summary:

New York City hosted the 1939 World's Fair with the theme "The World of Tomorrow" on the 150th anniversary of George Washington's presidential inaguration. This tunnel book was available as a souvenir from the Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building at the fair.

Subject:

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
New York World's Fair
Fairs in art.
Future in art.
Time perspective.
Clowns Pictorial works.
Peep shows.
Perspective temporelle.
Clowns Ouvrages illustrés.
Peep-shows.
Foires dans l'art.
Futur dans l'art.

Form/genre:

Peepshows.
Dioramas.
chromolithographs.
lithographs.
Lithographs
Tunnel books
Accordion fold format (Binding)
Recreations.
Livres tunnels.
Chromolithographies.
Lithographies.

Added entries:

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991.
United States.

1789-1939 : the world of tomorrow, New York World's Fair
New York World's Fair : the world of tomorrow, 1789-1939

Holdings:

Location: Library cage objects 94507
Call No.: T785 (ID:93-F57)
Status: Available