Trips OutsideWorlds Fair

Rummaging through a dusty cardboard box in the New York Historical Society, Marilyn Kushner found worldwide. He gently finger images in black and white view of foreign companies exhibitions and trips outside the 1939-1940 World's Fair in Queens, who recently left the company.

It is a gift fair most complete museum of images has never received, immediately to his collection of photos of two years 10 times greater.

"This far exceeds anything we've had," said Kushner. "You will be able to walk through the Expo now."

Researchers will examine the 1000 pictures over the summer, while waiting for historians to learn what secrets may be unlocked in the treasure potential.

Salon collectors wonder if the chest contains rare photos inside hundreds of houses that once dotted Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

"These are things you can not see," said John just said Riccardelli collector.

Richard Post, who leads hikes in the park, said the photos are important because they can cause unprecedented perspective seen.

The images come from the estate of a Westchester County school teacher named Paul Gillespie. He did not go to the fair, but he has collected and stored the photos in his Manhattan apartment.

Gillespie died in March at the age of 83 His executor Kushner is an apartment full of photos of a number of large index.

Included are candid shots of fairgoers in front of symbols of the event, Trylon and Perisphere, and couples will receive a parachute, which debuted at the show and then moved to Coney Island.

"These photos really put a personal taste of the World Fair," Kushner said. "It 's a lot of popular culture, we are gathering."

other shots of the right to half of the modern crowd you will probably find offensive.

One photo shows a sign of "Midget Town" which was presented as "the largest in the world of little people."

Another catch in long lines to enter an attraction called "fault of nature," where visitors gawked at a cow with two heads and eight feet of horses.

Kushner struck with the construction of the image, with Lucky Strike cigarettes, even for visitors. "The entire pavilion dedicated to cigarettes. Will this ever happen today?" Kushner said.

She said that the images are important because they demonstrate a reasonable time from the perspective of the average user.

"It's not just what we wanted to see the brochures," said Kushner. "This is a truly personalized view of what everybody has seen."