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Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930 F.D.R. Lays Corner Stone at Fair Site

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09957.18 Author/Creator: Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930 Place Written: Flushing Meadows, Long Island Type: Photograph Date: 1939 Pagination: 1 photograph Order a Copy

One undated picture of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Grover Whalen, president of the World Fairs Corps and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Pictured en route to the World's Fair site in Flushing Meadows.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
La Guardia, Fiorello Henry, 1882-1947
Whalen, Grover, 1886-1962

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