Shari Segel Goldberg collection of graphic materials
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The collection holds an etching dated 1879 by Henry Farrer and five items from the 1939 World's Fair: a booklet "Puppet World" and four postcards of a mural shown at the General Motors Building.
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Arranged chronologically and by format.
Scope and Contents
The collection holds 6 items: an etching dated 1879 by Henry Farrer and 5 items from the 1939 World's Fair. The World's Fair items are a booklet "Puppet World" and four postcards of a mural shown at the General Motors exhibition. The container list below includes more details on these.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open to qualified researchers. Available by advance appointment only. To schedule an appointment, contact the Print Room Librarian at printroom@nyhistory.org.
Conditions Governing Use
Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to twenty exposures of stable, unbound material per day. (Researchers may not accrue unused copy amounts from previous days.)
Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org 212-485-9228.
Preferred Citation
This collection should be cited as the Shari Segel Goldberg Collection of Graphic Materials, PR 396, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections, New-York Historical Society.
Credit line: Gift of Shari Segel Goldberg
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Shari Segel Goldberg, 2018
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The collection was processed by archivist Larry Weimer in May 2019.
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Etching. Henry Farrer, On N.Y. Bay, 1879
Booklet. Puppet World, Vol 1, No. 1, 1939
Scope and Contents
Published by the American Puppet Opera Co. of New York City (producers of the Victor Puppet Opera). Booklet contains the "Official Program of Puppet Operas presented in the Gas Exhibits [Gas Industries] Building, New York World's Fair, 1939." Item is made of newsprint and is fragile.
Postcards with images of Strength and Safety murals, 1939, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Four postcards, each showing a different section of the murals "Strength and Safety" executed by the painter Dean Cornwell for the Body by Fisher exhibit in the General Motors Building at the New York World's Fair. The images picture the evolution of an automobile body from its drawing board conception to its completion on the assembly line.