Interview with Ruth Cohen

Home

Home

This item does not have a title.

Add to Quick Collection

Interview with Ruth Cohen. 1980.

File	Description	Size	Format
DC	DC Metadata	2 KB	XML Document	Open
FULLTEXT_SOURCE1	Full Text of Source	4 KB	Text Document	Open
SOURCE1	1980.8.37 PDF	1 MB	Adobe Acrobat PDF	Open
THUMBNAIL_SOURCE1	Thumbnail	41 KB	JPEG Image	Open

Title: Interview with Ruth Cohen
Contributor: Susman, Warren, 1927-1985
Subject: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
Subject: General Motors Corporation
Subject: Pavilions
Subject: Sculpture
Subject: Then & now comparisons
Subject: Mother and child
Date: 1980
Description: Ruth Cohen discusses her memories of the 1939 New York World's Fair including the sculptures, artwork ,and standing in line to see the Futurama exhibit. She briefly mentions economic hardship her family faced during that time. Transcript from oral histories conducted under the direction of Warren Susman in conjunction with the "Dawn of A New Day" exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art in 1980. Some transcripts may be incomplete or may not follow the interview verbatim.

Relationships: Show Relationship Browser for this Object
collection(s): Queens Museum and Museum of the City of New York 1939-1940 and 1964-1965 New York World’s Fairs Collection
Identifier: aql:2263
Identifier: 1980.8.37WF39
Identifier: QMOA
Format: height: 11 x width: 8 1/2 inches, 3 pages
Coverage: Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Language: eng
Relation: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Rights: This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.
Type: transcripts
Source: Queens Museum
Full Text

309 Visitors

311 Hits

2 Downloads

Queens (New York, N.Y.) < > Interview with Ruth Cohen

Vital Repository 6.4.HF1