The Snapshots in Time Collection

Crowds on the Grand Avenue of a Late-1930s World's Fair or Exposition

Crowds on the Grand Avenue of a Late-1930s World's Fair or Exposition

Visitors stroll the grand promenade of a late-1930s American exposition, its flag-lined avenue flanked by streamline moderne pylons characteristic of world's fair architecture of the period. Preserved in a personal album alongside military photographs, this image reflects the leisure pursuits of American civilians in the final years before the outbreak of World War II. Project: 218292