Exploring the New York World's Fair 1939-40

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Photo # 03.001.1140    Place:  WORLDS FAIR / FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK / QUEENS / NEW YORK  Date:  July 27, 1940 
Subject:   WORLDS FAIR, RELIGION
Caption:  1939-40 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR
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 On this historical photo, I learned that people used to dressed to go out to the fair, telling us that times were very different as today. Today when people goes to park they do no  used this kind of clothing.
We may appreciate in this picture that the way building were built was incredible, in order to that they need a lot of imagination, tools, education, but it was done in times that the second world war was taken place. In just months that the war was there putting the economy behind.   These were time of expending money, progressing but  more than everything it was about showing off to other countries. We may see that other countries were invited, however I do not think it was to see how other countries were doing.   It was to show them how we were doing and these countries were the witnesses of how well the United States had improve. What it was appealing to me were the pictures.  Pictures says a lot of everything, there is no way that the pictures could be misleading or false, these pictures says exactly was it was going on these time therefore they are a reliable source. The problem about the past it is that the more you talk about the more it get distorted making the real thing look suspicious because we can not warranty if was said was true or not.
About David Gelenter's  his idea of trying to revive the past it is perfect we will understand and many details will come out we see a movie or a video thanks to technology, therefore we might understand it well enough to have an idea of what was going on in the past but still is not a reliable source it is helpful but not good enough to rely on it.  Technology in many times can be interesting and we may appreciate a lot but technology is not the last word when we talk about history.  A youtube video can tell us how people look like building look like but can not talk about feeling how the people felt in that moment. But people who lived those moment do can say how they felt , with much more details that a vide