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Call Number:

PH-00789

Collection Name:

[A portfolio of views of the New York World’s Fair of 1939]

Creator:

Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 (1875 - 1971)

No. of Items:

7 photographs in 1 portfolio

Span Dates:

1939?

Description:

Portfolio containing seven mounted photographs by Samuel H. Gottscho (American, 1875-1971) of the New York World’s Fair of 1939. The photographs, all gelatin silver prints, are individually mounted on boards of different weights. Four of the mount rectos are signed by the photographer. On the verso of each mount is the photographer's stamp and his inscriptions of the negative number and image title.

Accession No(s):

980:0151:0001-0007

Location(s):

f T 785 C1 G688 HRC-P (980:0151:0001-0007)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 (1875 - 1971)
Title [Trylon and perisphere]
Date 1939?
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 980:0151:0001
Artist/Maker Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 (1875 - 1971)
Title [Trylon and perisphere with silhouette statue of George Washington from Rainbow Avenue]
Date 1939
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 980:0151:0002
Artist/Maker Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 (1875 - 1971)
Title [Russian Building -- night view]
Date 1939
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 980:0151:0003
Artist/Maker Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 (1875 - 1971)
Title [Railroad Pageant -- Promontory Point -- East joining west]
Date 1939
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 980:0151:0004
Artist/Maker Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 (1875 - 1971)
Title [Italian Building]
Date 1939
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 980:0151:0005
Artist/Maker Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 (1875 - 1971)
Title [Statue -- "Freedom of Press," lagoon, fountains, trylon and perisphere]
Date 1939
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 980:0151:0006
Artist/Maker Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971 (1875 - 1971)
Title [Perisphere bridge, trylon and ramp]
Date 1939
Medium Gelatin silver print
Accession
Number		 980:0151:0007