Found 2 collections related to New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)

Max Henry Hubacher was a chemist, local historian, and amateur photographer who was born in Bern, Switzerland and later emigrated to the United States, where he lived in West Virginia and New York. Photographs by Max Hubacher, including approximately 5700 loose black and white photoprints and nine scrapbooks, dated 1917 to 1971, of scenes near his home in Long Island, in New York City, and documenting his travels throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States. Photographs show buildings, streetcars, and elevated subway lines in New York City and other urban centers; ships in New York Harbor and other waterways; trains and train stations throughout the United States, especially the Northern Pacific Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, and the California Zephyr; as well as schools, parks, snowstorms, and historic houses and buildings. Also includes old Swiss family and school photographs; pictures of Hubacher's wife and children, 1930s to 1960s; New York World's Fairs 1939/40 and 1964/65; Yellowstone National Park, Colorado National Monument, Grand Teton National Park, Black Canyon of Gunnison National Park, and Arches National Park; family homes and farms in Switzerland, Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia; a 1950 Ringling Bros. circus on Long Island; and the Ex-Lax building at 423 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. less