Near perfect condition, not postmarked, photo postcard (B&W) of the Japanese Building at theNew York Worlds Fair. Card is an Underwood & Underwood, serialized as 5F-162
The Japanese pavilion was designed by the Japanese-Americanarchitect Yasuo Matsui to resemble a traditional Shintoshrine, set within a Japanese garden. It offered tea ceremony and Japanese flower arrangement exhibits.[18]:135–136The interior had a "Diplomat room", which featured a reproduction ofthe Liberty Bellmade out of Japanese pearls and diamonds, worth $1 million. This room alsofeatured a photomontage mural across which was written the motto "Dedicatedto Eternal Peace and Friendship between America and Japan".[23]
The 1939–40 New York World's Fair was a world's fairheld at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens,New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive American world's fairof all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904.Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 millionpeople attended its exhibits in two seasons.[2]It was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening sloganof "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at"the world of tomorrow".
It will be shipped in rigid clear plastic sleeve, via USPS