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New York Worlds Fair, Petroleum Industries Building
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Queens: Flushing Meadow Park - New York World's Fair of 1939-40 - [Industrial exhibits.]

Flushing Meadow Park (Queens): Three of the industrial exhibits at the New York World's Fair 1939-40, situated in the southeast corner of the main exposition center. View 1 shows the DuPont Building, "The Wonder World of Chemistry," the designer of which is Walter Dorwin Teague; view 2, the General Electric Company Building. Voorhees, Walker, Foley and Smith are the architects; view 3, the Petroleum Industry Building, the roof of which is painted blue and is illuminated at night with fluorescent tubes.
June 16, 1940
Views 1,2,3
P. L. Sperr

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