....Postcards From The Worlds Fair....

Lagoon of Nations
....This spectacle produced nightly over Lagoon of Nations features the play of super fountains and flames, synchronized with color effects and special music and sound. Fair authorities describe it as Niagara plus a Vesuvius....



14-Ton Giant Underwood Typewriter
....The Giant Underwood Master Typewriter -- The Largest in the World -- Operates Daily at the Underwood Elliott Fisher Exhibit in the Business Systems Building at the New York World's Fair.
This huge machine, weighing 14 tons, is 1,728 times larger than the regular Underwood Master. It required 3 years to build. Each typebar weighs 45 points and the carriage alone weighs 3,500 pounds. Letters are typed on "stationary" measuring 9 by 12 feet, and the ribbon in the machine is 100 feet long and five inches wide. Two box cars were required to transport the Giant to the World's Fair....




The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Building
....The Firestone Building is a striking example of modern architecture, with a great rotunda entrance surmounted by a brilliantly lighted fin, towering 100 feet in the air. It houses a modern tire factory, producing a finished tire every four [minutes]. Featuring the exhibit is an extensive farmstead with barns, silos, granary and other buildings. Cattle, sheep, chickens and other live stock roam the fields. The farmstead highlights the many and important uses of rubber on the farm. The entire exhibit, including dioramas, scientific demonstrations and historical pageants covers 3 1/2 acres....
G.W. McLaughlin is the designer.




Federal Building
....Built overlooking an imposing lagoon and one of the Fair's largest fountains, the Federal Building with its twin towers is flanked by eight structures comprising the Hall of Nations where exhibits of more than 60 nations will acquaint the visitor with the arts and industries of all the world. Designed on the classic lines of Greek temples this group provides an imposing terminus to Constitution Mall....

Handwriting transcription

Flushing N.Y. July 17, 1939

Monday. We're at the Fair all day yesterday. They have a large cash register on top of a high tower telling how many people attend[ed] the fair. There were 163,321 yesterday.



....Connecting the Administration Building with the main exhibit area of the Fair, the "Bridge of Tomorrow" creates a new architectural design by utilizing the smooth curves and flowing lines of nautical construction....
Architects - A.J. Barzaghi & M.L. Radoslovich



....General exterior view of the Bell Telephone System Building at the New York World's Fair 1939 includes a building occupying a triangular plot of almost three acres. Formal entrance is through a pavilion in a semi-circular court in which is a sculptured group. From there to the Building proper a walk beautified with pools and fountains leads through a grove of 150 mountain pine trees....