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Description
1 diorama : color illustrations. Pop-up souvenir of the 1939 New York World's Fair. Colored illustrations are cut-away views hinged top and bottom to unfold accordion-like to reveal a single perspective. A peep show with six cut-away views hinged top and bottom to unfold accordion-like to reveal a single perspective. It shows Trylon and Perisphere, the symbol of the Fair. On the front cover is a kneeling General George Washington and two colonial ladies and one standing man in colonial costume being shown the future (the central walk of the New York World's Fair) through the center peep hole by a Harlequin figure. Produced for the Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building at the Fair. Color lithography.
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ISBN
ChappellHare_1789-1939.mp4
Publication Date
1939
Imprint / Year
[New York] : E. Hare, W. Chappell, [1939]
Publisher
E. Hare; W. Chappell
City
New York
Keywords
pop-up books; toy books; movable books; exhibitions (events); tunnel books; New York, New York, United States; folded books; illustration (process); paper engineering; folding (process); folded books; peepshows; color lithography
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Recommended Citation
Hare, ElizabethSage; Chappell, Warren; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "1789-1939, The World of Tomorrow, New York World's Fair" (1939). Pop-up and Movable Books. 95.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_popupandmovablebooks/95