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Results for Tag World’s Fair

Future Perfect: Re-Constructing the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Building the Fair model, Vintage gelatin silver print

Sunday, April 10, 12:00 pm – Sunday, August 21, 6:00 pm, 2011

Reaching from Flushing Bay on the north side to Kew Gardens on the south, and from the Federal Building on the east side in Flushing to the western entrance gate on 111th Street in Corona, the New York World’s Fair comprised a massive area covering 1,216 acres when it opened on April 30, 1939. The [...]

Working Stiffs: Photography from the Collection

Fritz Henle, U.S. Steel Gary Works, Gary, IN  "Top Women", c. 1940s

Sunday, April 4, 12:00 am – Friday, December 31, 12:00 am, 2010

Opening Reception May 16, 2010 2-5pm (click here for more information) Working stiffs, an archaic phrase from the slang of mid 20th century American life, suggests the deadly dullness and mind-numbing repetition of the life of the working class: from back-breaking, often brutal manual labor to the endless drudgery of mundane office tasks. Fifty photographs [...]