Postcard RPPC New York World's Fair 1939 Netherlands Pavilion 312

Description

Card is in excellent condition and is not postmarked. It is areal photo postcard (B &W) of the Netherlands
Pavilion
taken at night
at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. Card is an Underwood &Underwood, serialized as 5F-144
NetherlandsPavilion
This exhibitpresented a comprehensive survey of the cultural importance of the three partsof the empire: the Kingdom of Europe, the Dutch East Indies and the territoriesof Suriname and Curacao in South America
The 1939–40 New York World's Fair was a world's fair held atFlushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was thesecond-most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St.Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the worldparticipated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in twoseasons. It was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an openingslogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take alook at "the world of tomorrow".
It will be shipped in rigid clear plastic sleeve, via USPS