[Fountain at the New York World's Fair]

[Fountain at the New York World's Fair]

Photograph

A. Thomas Nelson

Maker
American, active ca. 1910s–1950s

[Fountain at the New York World's Fair]

From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]


September 1940
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 2 9/16 × 4 in. (6.5 × 10.2 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0003a
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Fountains in daytime, N.Y. World's Fair. Taken by someone in 1940, possibly by A. Thomas Nelson in Sept. 1940 as I find this one of four negatives among ours. See 3x3 7/8 print of the fountain playing at night, also the 3x3 7/8 print of large statue for further information.

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