New York, 1939
More than 44 million people attended the New York World's Fair in 1939 and 1940. The maps above and below were printed in the official guidebook. The fair focused on the world of tomorrow, with exhibits on such futuristic technologies as color photography, nylon, air conditioning, and Smell-O-Vision, a system of pipes connected to movie theater seats to deliver puffs of odor carefully timed to coincide with events on the screen. Oh, brave new world!
