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Title: The Perisphere, New York World's Fair
Publication Information: Curt Teich & Co
Contributing Institution: California State University, Fresno
Collection: Worlds Fair Collection
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Description: The Perisphere rises over the edge of a 16-foot serpentine hedge and huge flower-bed at the World's Fair of 1940 in New York like a one-ringed Saturn - the ring in this case being the spiral ramp down which people are seen making their exit from the "Democracity" spectacle which is staged inside the great globe.
Type: image
Format: 9.0 cm. x 14.0 cm.
Identifier: EXP939e.17pc
http://digitized.library.fresnostate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/worldsfair/id/16858
Subject: New York Worlds Fair
Place: New York, New York
Source: Donald L. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs
Relation: World's Fair Collection

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