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We’ve been celebrating the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the World’s Fairs all month, but today’s actually the opening day of the 1939 World’s Fair 75 years ago. The Parks Department posted some ...

Looking Back at the Future, a book of photographs and text about the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, commemorates the 85th anniversary of the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 60th anniversary of the ...

Editor's note: Readers of This Story in History may recall "Crusader," the subject of today's selection, from the July 24 story highlighting his victory in the turtle derby at the Blue Anchor Club, a ...

Covering 1,216 acres of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park section of Queens — a former garbage dump — the New York World's Fair of 1939 presented a glorious vision of "The World of Tomorrow." In the ...

Featuring some 80 artifacts, a show at the Wolfsonian–Florida International University revisits these exhilarating, forward-looking expositions, from 1850s London to 1960s New York and beyond.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Souvenir metal makeup compact from ...