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The Central Mall
Postcard courtesy of Bob Catania

This picture shows the Central Mall of the New York World’s Fair, a 2,000-foot esplanade lined with 250 trees and hundreds of benches arranged alongside five lagoons. The latter form setting for groups of sculptured symbolical figures, the huge portrait statue of George Washington at his inauguration, the largest Sun Dial in the world, and , at top the Perisphere,

Card #: 8A-H947