Check Out These Color Photos of the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens

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People visit the Trylon and Perisphere at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Inside the Perisphere was a diorama of a futuristic utopian city named Democracity. After viewing, visitors would leave by descending a long spiral walkway named the Helicline.

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