Box/Location
Folder
Description
box 19a
381.1-2
Client correspondence Apr1938-Jun1940, 1951. Agreements 1938 & 1940 (Job 405). NBG's Concessionaire's ID.
box 19a
381.3
Proposal to client Apr1938. Condensed Jun1938.
box 19a
381.4-5
Meeting minutes, memos, specifications Jan1938-Feb1939.
box 19a
381.6
Legal --- Contract NYWF & GM purchase order May 1938. Specification. Cost estimate. Rules for Exhibitors.
box 19a
381.7
Production Specifications --- Highways and Horizons production requirements, lists of drawings.
box 19a
381.8-9
Production Specifications --- Design Schedule and assignments.
box 19a
381.10-12
Production Specifications --- Specifications & GM Building Cost Estimates.
box 19b
381.13
Production Specifications --- Correspondence architect, contractor 1938-1939.
box 19b
381.14-20
Production Specifications --- Architectural, Electrical, Hardware, Floor, Lighting, Painting, Sound.
box 19b
381.21
Production Specifications --- Traffic Control Exhibit - Full Size Intersection - Memos, presentations.
box 19b
381.22
Production Specifications --- Science Auditorium - Memos, specifications.
photo box 9
381.1
Production Specifications --- Science Auditorium - 4 Photographs of theatre interior.
photo box 9
381.2
Production Specifications --- Science Auditorium - 9 Photographs of auditorium building & street intersection.
box 19b
381.23-26
Drawings --- 32 Sketches - 14 Highway and Horizons, 1 store front, 8 ramps or flow diagrams, 9 viewing platforms.
box 19b
381.27
Description of Building and Exhibit.
box 19c
381.28a-e
GM Building Specifications (13 parts).
box 19c
381.29
Building Model Construction Progress Charts 1938-1939.
box 19d
381.30-32
Spectator Conveyor System --- Description, specifications, memos, sketch, press release, sound system 1938-1939.
flat file
381.1a-e
Drawings --- 95 Preliminary - Section 'A' Main Ramp and Map Lobby, 'C' Apartment Building, 'D' Theatre, 'E' Exhibition Space, 'F' Diesel Entrance, 'G' Frigidaire Building.
flat file
381.2a-b, 3
Drawings --- 96 Working Drawings of buildings no. 100-199.
flat file
381.4
Drawings --- 27 Working Drawings of building layouts & lettering no. 1001-1031.
flat file
381.5a-b
Drawings --- 36 Drawings and blueprints of Section 'B' Highway Model - model buildings, animation for super highway.
flat file
381.6a
Drawings --- 20 Drawings & Blueprints - Topography of Highways and Key Plan & Description for Model Tables (folder 1 of 2, 13 drawings).
oversize flat files, drawer 1
381.6b
Drawings --- 20 Drawings & Blueprints - Topography of Highways and Key Plan & Description for Model Tables (folder 2 of 2, 7 blueprints, ca. 49 x 40 inches).
flat file
381.7
Drawings --- 53 Drawings and Renderings - Conveyor System, model buildings, Vision Study, landscape.
flat file
381.8a
Drawings --- 29 Blueprints - Albert Kahn, Architect of building, NBG's plans & details (folder 1 of 2, 27 items).
oversize flat files, drawer 1
381.8b
Drawings --- 29 Blueprints - Albert Kahn, Architect of building, NBG's plans & details (folder 2 of 2, 2 items, 51 1/4 x 35 3/4 inches and 37 1/2 x 48 inches).
flat file
381.8c
Drawings --- 3 Topographical plans for Highway model. 2 Blueprints of conveyor, mechanical and electrical.
oversize flat files, drawer 1
381.8d
Drawings --- 1 Blueprint of key plan and descriptive tables for Highway model (encapsulated, 43 1/4 x 49 3/4 inches).
flat file
381.9
Drawings --- 6 Photocopies GM Bldg. floor plan.
flat file
381.10
Drawings --- 6 renderings - Lettering on Buildings.
flat file
381.11
Drawings --- 5 Photos of renderings for Highway Model Exhibit.
box 19d
381.33-36
Photographs --- Record Copy Book captions, record sheets. Garrison photo captions.
photo box 9
381.3
Photographs --- 77 Record Copy Photos of presentation model, GM executives, building construction, Futurama model construction, exhibit and viewers.
photo box 9
381.4
Photographs --- 95 Record Copy Photos of Futurama model construction (includes images of the "Toledo Tomorrow" model exhibit).
photo box 9a
381.5
Photographs --- 49 Record Copy Photos of Futurama model.
photo box 9a
381.6
Photographs --- 23 Futurama photos by Gjon Mili.
photo box 9a
381.7
Photographs --- 7 Photos of NBG at Work.
photo box 9a
381.8
Photographs --- 1 Photo of rendering building and exhibit.
photo box 9a
381.9
Photographs --- 8 Photos of Futurama --- GM Press Guide.
photo box 9a
381.10-13
Photographs --- 24 Photos of City of 1960, Farming Scene, Bridge (folder 381.10 includes images of the "Toledo Tomorrow" model exhibit).
damaged flat box 9
381.1
Photographs --- 2 Photographs of model and NYWF.
box 19d
381.37
Photographs --- Easter Gag with Futurama model.
photo box 9a
381.14
Photographs --- 4 Photos of Easter Gag with Futurama model.
box 19d
381.38
Photographs --- Construction photos - Photograph Record Sheets.
photo box 10
381.15-16
Photographs --- GM Construction Documentation photographs Aug1938-Mar1939 by Mills and Baker.
photo box 10a
381.17
Photographs --- 6 Photos of Diesel Entrance model.
photo box 10a
381.18-27
Photographs --- 146 Futurama photos of Farming, Mountains, Air Terminals, Bridges, Highways, Streets of the Future, Metropolis, model construction.
photo box 10a
381.28
Photographs --- 29 Photos of Frigidaire Building and Exhibit.
box 19d
381.39
Photographs --- Negative ms. note.
negative box 6
381.1
Photographs --- 42 Negatives: 5 Farming, 8 GM Building model, 7 Futurama, 18 Futurama and fairgoers. [13 damaged]
negative box 7
381.2
Photographs --- 42 Negatives. (continued)
negative box 7
381.3a
Photographs --- 42 Negatives (continued). [1 damaged]
negative box 43
381.3b
Photographs --- 42 Negatives (continued). [nitrate]
negative box 7
381.4
Photographs --- 42 Negatives (continued).
box 19d
381.40
Photographs --- Futurama Model Construction Progess Photo List.
photo box 10b
381.29-46
Photographs --- 310 Photographs of Futurama model construction.
negative box 7
381.5a
Photographs --- 240 Negatives and developing notes.
negative box 43
381.5b
Photographs --- 240 Negatives and developing notes. (continued) [nitrate]
negative box 43
381.6-7
Photographs --- 240 Negatives and developing notes. (continued) [nitrate]
negative box 7
381.8a-11a
Photographs --- 240 Negatives (continued). [4 damaged]
negative box 8
381.12a-14a
Photographs --- 240 Negatives (continued).
negative box 43
381.8b-14b
Photographs --- 240 Negatives. (continued) [nitrate]
negative box 8
381.15-16
Photographs --- 240 Negatives (continued). [5 damaged]
negative box 9
381.17-18
Photographs --- 240 Negatives (continued). [5 damaged]
negative box 9
381.19
Photographs --- 15 canisters of 35 mm negatives, labeled A-O, of Futurama construction.
box 19d
381.41
Photographs --- GM Building Photograph Record Sheets.
box 19d
381.42
Photographs --- Data - Fairchild Aerial Photograph Inventory.
photo box 10b
381.47-48
Photographs --- 112 Photographs of GM Building Model.
photo box 10c
381.49-52
Photographs --- 112 Photographs of GM Building Model (continued).
photo box 10d
381.53
Photographs --- 2 rolls of strip contact prints showing NBG presenting GM Building model to GM executives [removed from photo box 10c].
photo box 10c
381.54-55
Photographs --- 21 Photographs of GM Building Model.
photo box 10c
381.56-64
Photographs --- 64 Photographs of GM Building and publicity events.
photo box 10c
381.65
Photographs --- Album containing 19 photographs of models under construction (photos by Mili, Garrison, GM, Huxtable).
photo box 19d
381.42a
Photographs --- Original binder for record copy book photographs of Exposition Building by John Mills, Jr.
photo box 19d
381.42b
Photographs --- Original binder for record copy book photographs of Exposition Building, Turner Construction, by Eric J. Baker.
negative box 9
381.20-21
Photographs --- 64 Negatives of GM Building and fairgoers. [2 damaged]
flat file
381.21-22
Publicity --- 2 Photo montages (mounted as if for presentation, each ca. 45 x 34 inches).
box 19d
381.43-44
Publicity --- Complimentary letters rec. Nov1938-Jul1940, 1952.
box 19d
381.45
Publicity --- Complimentary correspondence Luce Geddes re Life article Jun1939.
oversize box 8
381.1
Publicity --- Clipping "Life Goes to the Futurama".
oversize box 8
381.2a
Publicity --- Souvenir Book for Dinner Oct1939, copy 1 of 4: Inscribed "Copy #6."
oversize box 8
381.2b
Publicity --- Souvenir Book for Dinner Oct1939, copy 2 of 4: Inscribed "Library copy #1."
oversize box 8
381.2c
Publicity --- Souvenir Book for Dinner Oct1939, case for copy 2.
oversize box 8
381.2d
Publicity --- Souvenir Book for Dinner Oct1939, copy 3 of 4: #561 of "limited edition of 1,000 copies"; purchased by W. H. Crain.
oversize box 8
381.2e
Publicity --- Souvenir Book for Dinner Oct1939, copy 4 of 4: With negative tucked inside front cover.
box 19e
381.46
Publicity --- Complimentary correspondence Luce Geddes re Life article Jun1939
box 19e
381.47
Publicity --- Publicity Writing - Memos, press release, presentation book pages, photograph record sheet 1938-1939.
box 19e
381.48
Publicity --- Press releases & transcripts of articles 1938-1939.
box 19e
381.49
Publicity --- "Highways and Horizons" brochures.
box 19e
381.50
Publicity --- Press guide 1939. "New Horizons of Industry through Research" 1939.
box 19e
381.51
Publicity --- "Futurama" Exhibit Guide c1940.
box 19e
381.52
Publicity --- Futurama Exhibit - "World Horizons" by Gardner Harding.
box 19e
381.53
Publicity --- Press Guide General Motors Highways and Horizons Exhibit 1940. Photo ms. notes. [See also photo box 9a, folder 381.7 above.]
box 19e
381.53a
Publicity --- "Map of the New York World's Fair, with a New Transit Map of Greater New York."
negative box 9
381.22
Publicity --- 2 Negatives Street Intersection.
negative box 9
381.23
6 Negatives (should be interfiled?).
flat file
381.12
Publicity --- Press Guide - Panoramic photograph of General Motors building (10 x 42 1/4 inches).
flat file
381.13-14
Publicity --- Press Guide - 12 photographs, presentation model by Garrison.
oversize box 8
381.3
Publicity --- Press Guide - 3 photostats.
flat file
381.15
Publicity --- Frigidaire Building Exhibit - 1 Photo.
flat file
381.16
Publicity --- City of 1960 - 9 Photos.
box 19e
381.54
Research - "City of Tomorrow" Reports 1938.
box 19e
381.55
Full Sized Street Intersection - Memo.
box 19e
381.56-57
Case History of the GM Intersection 1941 --- Conveyor system, subsidiary exhibits, "Parade of Progress" caravan exhibit.
box 19e
381.58
Perpetuation of Futurama after the World's Fair --- Meeting minutes, letter rec. from Sloan Apr1940-May1940. See also Job No. 405, GM Futurama Caravan.
box 19e
381.59
Futurama Caravan "A Presentation of Various Plans for Continuing the Use of Futurama" Apr1940.
box 19f
381.60
Prospects --- Idea for article on Futurama Building Farms.
box 19f
381.61-67
Publicity --- Clippings 1938-1940.
box 19g
381.68-72
Publicity --- Clippings (continued).
damaged box 11
381.1
Publicity --- 4 Photostats.
object
381.25
Publicity --- "I Have Seen the Future" souvenir button. On verso: "General Motors Exhibit World's Fair 1940 in New York".
flat box 11b
381.1
Publicity --- Presentation book with TLS addressed to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 21 July 1939 (copies 1-2 of 4).
flat box 11b
381.2
Publicity --- Presentation book (copies 3-4 of 4).
flat box 11b
381.3
Publicity --- Loose presentation book leaves (5).
flat box 11b
381.4
Publicity --- Loose presentation book leaves (2).
box 19g
381.73
GM Consumer Building --- Copy of letter from Alfred P. Sloan Jr. to NBG, 19 May 1950; presentation book, "Suggestion for a Ford Motors Consumers' Building at Rockefeller Center New York."
oversize box 8a
381.4a-b
GM Consumer Building --- Presentation book, "Suggestion for a Ford Motors Consumers' Building at Rockefeller Center New York" (3 copies).
flat file
381.17
GM Consumer Building --- 3 Renderings GM Consumer Building 1949; 2 photostats of renderings.
flat file
381.18
GM Consumer Building --- 23 Drawings & sketches, 6 photostats.
flat file
381.19
GM Consumer Building --- 55 Blueprints of sketches.
flat file
381.20a-b
GM Consumer Building --- 3 Renderings GM Consumer Building 1949.
oversize box 8a
381.5
GM Consumer Building --- Clipping - GM Tech Center, Saarinen arch. 1949.
object
381.1
Models --- Bus, "GM 99" (gray, 4 3/4 x 12 x 4 1/2 inches).
object
381.2
Models --- Bus, "GM 99" (silver, 4 3/4 x 12 x 4 1/2 inches).
object
381.3
Models --- Bus, "GM 99" (white, 4 3/4 x 12 x 4 1/2 inches).
object
381.4
Models --- Transcontinental bus (green, 3 3/4 x 13 x 3 1/2 inches).
object
381.5
Models --- Bus, "W II" (gray, 4 1/8 x 13 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches).
object
381.6
Models --- Streamlined bus, "N 24" (brown, 4 1/4 x 13 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches).
object
381.7
Models --- Futurama car (yellow, 3 x 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches).
object
381.8
Models --- Futurama car (blue, 3 x 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches).
object
381.9
Models --- Futurama car (green, 3 x 8 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches).
object
381.10
Models --- Futurama car (olive, 2 1/2 x 5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches).
object
381.11
Models --- Miniature streamlined cars (ca. 100) used in 1940 animated Futurama model and on cover of Magic Motorways .
object
381.12
Models --- Streamlined motor coach (plaster with beige paint, 5 3/4 x 20 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches).
object
381.13
Models --- Bus, labeled "Motor Coach No. 4" by Ransom Center staff (silver, 4 x 13 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches).
object
381.14a
Models --- Taxi, "GM" (silver, 2 3/4 x 5 x 3 1/8 inches).
object
381.14b
Models --- Taxi (yellow, 2 3/4 x 5 x 3 1/8 inches).
object
381.14c
Models --- Taxi (brown, 2 3/4 x 5 x 3 1/8 inches).
object
381.14d
Models --- Taxi (plaster with beige paint, 2 3/4 x 5 x 3 1/8 inches).
object
381.15
Models --- Truck, "The Bromby" (silver, 4 x 8 x 3 3/4 inches).
object
381.16a-c
Models --- Train/trailer truck, in 3 segments (plaster with beige paint, 4 1/8 x ca. 23 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches when assembled).
object
381.17a
Models --- "Pleasure Car" (silver, 3 x 6 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches).
object
381.17b
Models --- "Pleasure Car," in two pieces (silver, 3 x 6 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches when assembled).
object
381.18a
Models --- Motor car (plaster with beige paint, 2 3/4 x 8 x 3 1/4 inches).
object
381.18b
Models --- Motor car (plaster with beige paint, 3 x 6 x 3 1/4 inches).
object
381.19
Models --- Train (black, 2 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches).
object
381.20
Models --- Truck, "GM 24 E" (brown, 4 x 8 x 3 3/4 inches).
object
381.21
Models --- City bus (plaster with beige paint, 4 1/4 x 13 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches).
object
381.22
Models --- Truck, "GM 129" (olive, 4 1/8 x 8 x 3 3/4 inches).
object
381.23
Models --- Pick-up truck with miniature cars stored in bed of truck (truck: plaster with beige paint, 3 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 4 inches).
object
381.24
Models --- Pick-up truck, "GM 600" (gray, 2 1/4 x 6 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches).