Description: A paperweight in the shape of the Trylon and Perisphere, on a base etched with the words "New York World's Fair".

The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair promised a new age of global communication, nationwide superhighways, and suburban living-and it delivered. Crafted by designers such as Walter Dorwin Teague, Norman Bel Geddes, and Raymond Loewy, the twelve-hundred-acre fair in Flushing Meadows sold visitors a streamlined world of consumer goods-teardrop cars and smoking robots, electric dishwashers and nylon stockings-manufactured by companies such as Westinghouse, General Motors, and AT&T. In New York's 1939-1940 World's Fair, insightful narrative accompanies dazzling postcards, advertisements, and illustrations of Democracity, Futurama, the Lagoon of Nations, and the famed Trylon and Perisphere, recalling the promise and optimism of a fair that enchanted forty-five million visitors.

Description: Memo announcing the retention of the Trylon and Perisphere for the second year of the fair but the adoption of a new slogan: "For Peace and Freedom".

Description: Double deck of cards, showing the Trylon and Perisphere, in original box.