1939 New York City World's Fair - Japanese Pavilion

Description: 1939 New York City World's Fair - Japanese Pavilion - 1950: The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the 1,216 acres (492 ha) of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair), was the second most expansive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. The NYWF of 1939–1940 was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day". The Japanese pavilion was designed by the Japanese-American architect Yasuo Matsui to resemble a traditional Shinto shrine, set within a Japanese garden. It offered tea ceremony and Japanese flower arrangement exhibits. The interior had a "Diplomat room", which featured a reproduction of the Liberty Bell made out of Japanese pearls and diamonds, worth $1 million. This room also featured a photomontage mural across which was written the motto "Dedicated to Eternal Peace and Friendship between America and Japan". Japan and the US went to war on 8 December 1941, a year after the exhibition closed. The interior of the pavilion was designed by the Japanese architect and photographer Iwao Yamawaki, who studied at the Bauhaus school in Germany in the early 1930s. This Linen Era postcard offers an interior view of the Pavilion. The card is in good condition, but shows some soiling and has a small tear on the card's lower border. Published by the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Price: 8.5 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

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