Print, Cover of The New Yorker, The New York World's Fair, September 2, 1939 | Images | Objects | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Print, Cover of The New Yorker, The New York World's Fair, September 2, 1939

Cartoon-like scene viewed from an elevated perspective on a broad thoroughfare (Avenue of the Patriots) widest at the bottom of the page, narrowing to a vanishing point/horizon about 1/3 from the top. A 3-car, passenger trolley with open-sided coaches and striped awnings is traveling down the Avenue about to run into a group of tourists obliviously standing in the middle of the road. The cars are in zig-zag formation, as if veering. The driver in front on a tractor-like vehicle, looks distressed. 2 women passengers in the first car each has her hand to her mouth, stifling a gasp. A male passenger cranes his neck out the side. Pedestrians on either side of the trolley react to the situation. Among these, on the left (from front to back): a woman wearing a grid-patterened dress ruffled by the trolley's draft holds onto her orange hat. A man in a yellow hat, suit jacket over one arm, shakes his cane at the trolley. A man in a uniform pushes a lady seated in what looks like an armchair on wheels out of the way. On the right - a grey suited man tugs the arm of a woman in a white dress, light blue hat and black handbag who looks over her shoulder, her mouth a big 'O.' A woman in a yellow dress, drawn with a wavy outline making it look windblown, holds onto her hat and dress. Also notable on the right are 10 young ladies/schoolgirls, with beret-like hats, walking in line in pairs, looking up and around unaware of the trolley. Their chaperones are 3 expressionless nuns whose black habits stand out like exclamation points in the colorful scene. The nuns, 1 in back, 1 in the middle right of the line, 1 in front left of the line, echo the zig-zag of the trolley. Also unaware on the left are 2 sailors leaning against a flagpole. All the women wear dresses, smallish hats and heels, all the men wear suits and panama hats. On either side of the thoroughfare, flagpoles with colorful pennants hanging down are situated on green “islands” (like grass). The flagpoles, islands, and roadway direct the eye upwards to the exhibition pavilions at the horizon. Above them a light blue sky has wispy horizontal clouds. All culminates at the top in the magazine’s masthead all caps in purple on 2 lines: Top line: THE” in a smaller font, almost centered over “NEW YORKER” on the second line in a larger font. A small triangle outline is nestled in the “elbow” of the “N. Also on top lineT to far right and far left of 'THE' respectively are date “Sept. 2, 1939” and cost 'Price 15 cents””A tiny five point star, like an asterisk, is left of the date. “KARASZ” is at bottom left in white capitals, running vertically. The scene is colored in shades of purple, orange, jade green, white, black, sky blue.