The Lucky Strike Cigarettes, Wonder Bread Bakery, and Sheffield Farms buildings stand on part of the grounds of the 1939 New York World's Fair. #

The Electric Utilities Pavilion. Electrification was a major theme throughout the fair. #

A row of statues leads to the Perisphere and Trylon. #

A large crowd in front of the General Motors Pavilion. #

The National Cash Register Building. #

The Swift Premium Meats building. #

The General Motors Pavilion. (Updated, the original caption erroneously identified this as the Ford Pavilion.) #

An aerial view of the fair shows the music hall advertising Hot Mikado with Bill Robinson. #

Visitors watch a working oil derrick at the petroleum exhibit. #

Two women pose on a Kodak posing stand during the 1939 New York World's Fair. #

A statue decorates the entrance to the Maritime Transport and Commerce Pavilion. #

The General Motors Pavilion, with its Highways and Horizons exhibit. #

General Motors displays a transparent car in its pavilion. The four-door Pontiac Deluxe Six is clad in Plexiglas. #

A display in the Glass Incorporated Pavilion. #

Part of the Aquacade Floor Show at the 1939 New York World's Fair. #

Ford car parts displayed inside its pavilion. #

The Tomas Bata exhibit in the Czechoslovakian Pavilion. Bata was a Czech industrialist who founded a large shoe factory. #

A model of New York as the "City of Light" in the Consolidated Edison Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. #

A detail of the "Futurama" model in the General Motors Pavilion. The exhibit was designed by Norman Bel Geddes. #

A stuffed moose in the Canadian Pavilion. #

The Lucky Strike Cigarettes and Wonder Bread Bakery buildings are shown illuminated at night at the 1939 New York World's Fair. #

The Electric Utilities Pavilion at night. #

The National Cash Register building shows the number of people in attendance at the 1939 New York World's Fair. #

The Firestone Pavilion at night. #

The United States Pavilion lit up at night. #

The General Electric and Westinghouse Pavilions. #

A statue of a Pony Express rider being ambushed by Native Americans, at the American Telephone and Telegraph Pavilion. #

The Chrysler Pavilion lit up at night. #

Detail of Time and the Fates of Man, a sculpture by Paul Manship, in front of the Perisphere, at the 1939 New York World's Fair. #