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Title [Documents relating to design decisions]
Date 1938-1939
Document Type Official Record
Description Material on design choices, including samples of the official font and insignia of the fair, and memos and correspondence discussing the design of all manner of things, from arm bands, flags and menus to mailing stickers and garbage cans. The file also has information on designs that came about as a result of the fair, such as shoes inspired by the fair from a Boston shoe company.
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Fair 1939/40 New York World’s Fair
Keywords design, art, fair theme, fair site, consumerism
Archive New York Public Library
Collection I. CENTRAL FILES – I.B. CONSTRUCTION
Archive Reference C1. Design
Copyright New York World's Fair 1939 and 1940 Incorporated Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library www.nypl.org