The Dutch Pavilion at The 1939 New York World’s Fair
In 1939 New York City hosted the World’s Fair, drawing huge crowds to a former Queens dumping ground transformed into Flushing Meadow Corona Park. After a decade of great depression, the fair’s theme of “Building the World of Tomorrow” was to be a celebration of humanity’s progress and welcome for the dawn of a new era of peace, progress, and freedom. But not every country was on the same page about what tomorrow would look like.
Caption as used in the archive of the Tropen Museum (National Museum of World Cultures):
Dolls from the collection of the Tropenmuseum in the Dutch pavilion at The New York World’s Fair that represent various Surinamese cultural groups on the market on Paramaribo’s ‘Waterkant’. (04/30/1939 - 10/31/1939)
Supplement from Roots to Fruits made on the occasion of the participation of Werkplaats Typografie to the Printed Matter 2022 New York Art Book Fair.
