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HENRY K. BENCATHY NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR / AMERICAN AIRLINES. 1964. 40x30 inches. Condition A-: creases in top margin; paper. A modernistic view of the Unisphere at the New York World's Fair, with the Manhattan skyline in the background. The Unisphere was chosen as the visual theme for the fair (in the same vein that the Trylon and Perisphere had come to represent the 1939 World's Fair). Designed by Gilmore Clarke, it was made out of steel and measured 140 feet high and weighed 900,000 pounds; the three orbital rings were intended to signify the first man-made satellites. U. S. Steel paid for the construction of the Unisphere in exchange for publicity, and its name appears in small print at the bottom of this poster.
