Letter from F. Nicholas Feer to President Paul Klapper, Queens College, New York Accession #2001-01

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Title	Letter from F. Nicholas Feer to President Paul Klapper, Queens College, New York Accession #2001-01
Creator	Feer, F. Nicholas
Subject	Exhibitions World records
Description--Front	Transcript of letter: October 22, 1940. Dear Mr. Klapper: I have not yet answered your letters of October 2nd and the 9th because we have been receiving various instructions from Switzerland up to yesterday, and therefore were not in a position to make a decision about the distribution. We are very glad to inform you that we can let you have the eight panels with photographs of famous Swiss for your institution. The duty is waived by the U.S. Government when exhibits are turned over to educational institutions but there will be a small charge of about $3.00 for the clerical work in connection with the transfer. As soon as the customs formalities have been settled, I will take the liberty of informing you so that you can then make arrangements to call for the pictures. The books in our exhibit have long been promised to the Swiss Library. The model showing the geographic distribution of the four languages in Switzerland is part of a group of four panels which we have promised to...
Coverage-geographic	Queens County (NY); New York, New York
Date Original	1940-10-22
Contributors	Mr. Feer, Manager of the Swiss Pavilion at the 1939-1940 World's Fair, is replying to a request made by Paul Klapper to obtain some photographic panels used in exhibition at the Swiss Pavilion. Klapper made this type of request of several of the Pavilion's at the end of the Fair. Queens College took full advantage of visiting the Fair's facilities, in such close proximity in Flushing Meadows, when it was open.
Publisher	Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Language	en
Source Height	11"
Source Width	8.5"
Type	JPG
Digitization Specifications	Archive masters were scanned at 300 dpi, 8-bit grayscale, using an Epson Perfection 3200 scanner and SilverFast Scanning software set at automatic image processing, and saved as uncompressed TIFFs. Derivative access files were saved as medium quality JPEGS, 150 dpi, 1000 pixels on the long dimension. Thumbnails were generated automatically by CONTENTdm.
Date Digital	2005-12-08
Resource Identifier	cpkwf2ac.jpg
File Size	166.406 kb
Format	Text
Height	1000
Width	760
Color Space	Grayscale
Rights Management	Queens College Archives, Rosenthal Library, Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Contributing Institution	Queens College (CUNY), New York, New York
Digitization Team	GSLIS 790, Digital Imaging, Fall 2005

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Letter from F. Nicholas Feer to President Paul Klapper, Queens College, New York Accession #2001-01

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