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man-and-his-world · 4 months ago

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Remnants of the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair left in Flushing Meadows Park in 1942.

#1939 #New York Worlds Fair

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atomic-chronoscaph · 8 months ago

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Designs by Norman Bel Geddes (1930s)

#norman bel geddes #industrial design #retro futurism #streamline moderne #art deco #concept art #futurama exhibition #concept cars #airliner no. 4 #streamlined whale ocean liner #1939 new york world's fair #1930s

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tricoufamily · 1 month ago

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more ancient ocs i got bored and made as sims. they were doing every tired annoying romantasy trope years ahead of the curb smh i could have been making booktok bucks

#had these guys since i was 15. sinclair is like the proto-[insert literally any of my modern characters here]#had to remake sinclair entirely. i have never been able to make him look right. until now crowd cheers #to be fair he doesn't look like his cc preview self bc he's got 2 different designs #when he's got the long hair and he's chunkier that's after a time jump in this dumb ass extremely 2018 story #but that's him in the beginning. this is like. a fantasy world based on the 1920s new york #and he's a gang leader (yeah i KNOW. I KNOW. i never change) who deals in dark magic or something i barely remember the details tbh #and the other one is calvin his dad is like. a cult leader? he's basically like locked in a tower his whole life that sort of thing #and they're magical but calvin can't control his and he accidentally kills someone with it #and his estranged sister who's a part of this gang gets him a job at their like speakeasy in exchange for covering it up #anyway pinterest heads know the exact face claim i used for him everyone uses the face claim but NO. he's the MOST that face claim #it's DIFFERENT #sinclair's face claim is that sexy joker cosplay guy. anyway #ts4 #ts4 edit #ts4 cas #the sims 4

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c86 · 4 months ago

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A Visit to the New York World's Fair with Peter and Wendy, 1964

Artwork by Catherine Barnes

#illustration #cover art #60s #new york world's fair #catherine barnes

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newyorkthegoldenage · 5 months ago

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One of the artists commissioned to create a new work for the 1939-40 World's Fair was the sculptor Augusta Savage. A leading member of the Harlem Renaissance, she was the only black woman to be so honored.

Her piece, intended to celebrate African-Americans’ contributions to music, showed a kneeling black man holding a bar of music and 12 black chorus singers representing strings on a harp, the sounding board of which was no less than the hand of God. She called it Lift Every Voice and Sing, a nod to a poem by her friend James Weldon Johnson that was later set to music and adopted as the black "national anthem" by the NAACP.

The work stood 16 feet tall and was made of plaster that had been lacquered to look like black basalt. She was paid $360 for it (around $8,000 in today's dollars) and it was placed in the courtyard of the Contemporary Arts Building, near one of the Fair’s gates. Fair officials renamed it The Harp, which Savage reportedly hated. Small metal replicas were sold as souvenirs, and images of it were reproduced on postcards.

When the Fair ended, Savage had no money to remove and store her sculpture, or to cast the large piece in bronze, as she had with other, smaller works. So, like all the other "temporary" artwork created for the Fair, it was destroyed by a bulldozer.

In 2017, a NY Times op-ed piece by the filmmaker Aviva Kempner proposed that a full-size replica of the sculpture be created and placed in front of the National Museum of African-American History & Culture in Washington. So far, there has been no movement towards carrying that idea out.