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SKYLINE VIEW OF DOWNTOWN NEW YORK

FROM GOVERNOR'S ISLAND IN THE HARBOR

Arrived in New York.

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DATE

Approved by New York Worlds Fair, 1939, copyright 1939 by Creative Publishing Co., New York. Fair Illustr

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Official painting of New York World's Fair 1939, showing $155,000,000 "World of Tomorrow" Exposi

PAINTING OF FAIR

tion. Beyond colorful structures of this metropolis of a New Day rise slender spires of the host city of

New York where lavish preparations have been made to entertain millions of visitors. Fair and City vié

with each other as attractions.

Drawn by H. M. Pettit, this painting shows clearly major arterial, subway, railroad and other lines which tie

GROUNDS by PETTIT

1,216-acre Fair to Manhattan. In the extreme upper right is the Whitestone Bridge route from New

England and Canada; next in order come Flushing Bay boat piers, North Beach Airport and Grand Central

Parkway Extension to the Triborough Bridge. Paralleling this side of grounds are tracks of the Long Island

Railroad and the 1.R.T-B.M.T. subways, while the Fair station of the Independent Subway may be seen

at bottom center just left of World's Fair Boulevard, which bisects grounds and connects directly with

Queensborough Bridge. Other main arteries lead to the Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.