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Creator:
Hare, Elizabeth Sage
Title(s):

The world of tomorrow, New York World's Fair / copyright by Elizabeth Sage Hare and Warren Chappell.

Additional Title(s):

At head of title: 1789 1939

Published/Created:
[New York : s.n., 1939]
Physical Description:
1 peepshow : cardboard and paper (col.) ; 13 x 16 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 H3
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
BEIN Shirley 4874: Ms. numbers on front and back.
Cottage of content, or, Toys, games, and amusements of nineteenth century England, 65
Selected exhibitions: "The Cottage of Content : or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England" (Yale Center for British Art, November 2 - December 31, 1977).
A tunnel book (or peepshow) consisting of six color-lithographed cardboard leaves, mounted on tissue-paper accordion folds, that give a perspective view through a peep hole of the New York World's Fair of 1939.
Subject Terms:
Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York -- Pictorial works.
New York World's Fair (1939-1940) -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Tunnel books.
Recreations.
Accordion fold format (Binding)
Contributors:
Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991.
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Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]


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