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Official name: New York World´s Fair 1939-1940

Occasion: 150. Anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration

Motto: Building the World of tomorrow

Category: General Exhibition 2. Category

Landmark: Trylon and Perisphere

Location: Flushing Meadows Park, Queens

Duration: 30 April – 31 October 1939 and 11 May – 27 October 1940 (351 days)

Opening: 30 April 1939, attended by President Roosevelt

Area: 500 hectare

President of the Fair: Grover Loysius Whalen

Head of New York Parks Commission: Robert Moses

Architect of the Theme Center: Wallace K. Harrison and Jacques André Fouilhoux

Exhibitors: 1.500

Employees: 50.000

Visitors: close to 45 million (1939: 25.8 million, 1940: 19.14 million)

Organisation: private Fair Corporation

Entrance fee: 75 cents, season ticket 15 dollars

Expenditure: 125 million dollars

Deficit: 18 million dollars

Participants: 54 nations in 22 nation pavilions, 26 pavilions of American Federal States, numerous company pavilions – all together 300 buildings

Classification: none

Jury: none


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The New York World Exposition 1939 & 1940
 
Year: 1939City: New YorkCountry: USA
Duration: 30th April - 31st October 1939 und 11th

 

 

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