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Aerial view of General Motors' Futurama at the World’s Fair (New York, 1939); architectural model of NYC in the future.

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Courtyard inside Ford Rotunda Building, Dearborn, Michigan, 1937. Ford Motor Company brought its central Rotunda building from the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition back to Dearborn and, from 1936 until a devastating fire destroyed the building in 1962, recreated the excitement of a World's Fair exposition on its home turf. This photo shows the central courtyard inside the building soon after it opened in 1937. [THF222354]

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Demolition of the globe in the Ford Rotunda, Dearborn, Michigan, after the fire which destroyed the complex in 1962.

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Globes being manufactured (Rand McNally and Company; 1930/1969) [Newberry Library, Chicago]

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General Motors' Futurama at the World’s Fair (New York, 1939)); architectural model of NYC in the future [Alfred Eisenstaedt The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock]

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General Motors' Futurama at the World’s Fair (New York, 1939); architectural model of NYC in the future [Alfred Eisenstaedt The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock]

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Courtyard of the Ford Rotunda Building in Dearborn, Michigan, 1937 (THF99168)

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[Caption on card] "NA-5568 A large, transparent globe showing the earth's land water areas in relief stands in the Pennsylvania Avenue lobby of the National Archives Building. Made by Terr-A-Qua Globes & Maps Co., of Santa Ana, Calif., the globe was contributed to NARS by Dr. Talbert Abrams in honor of Capt. & Mrs. Finn Ronne. The diameter of the globe is 6 1/2 feet. It was presented to NARS October 21, 1969. This picture was made in January 1975. The globe is part of the Center for Polar Archives, which was established in the National Archives in 1967 and which has papers of Capt. Ronne among its holdings." Still Pictures ID: 64-NA-5568 64-NA-5568_2008

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3rd April 1933: Women workers attaching strips of map to globes at the Geographia Factory in London. (Photo by Harry Todd)

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Artists standing among models of buildings for General Motors’ Futurama, New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Incorporated records (NYPL Digital records)

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