Built on a former ash dump, the World’s Fair literally rose like a Phoenix onto the Queens landscape, covering 1,216 acres. This poster, published for the fair’s second year, provides a well-manicured view of Fountain Lake, with the Perisphere and Trylon in the background. These two monumental structures were intended to evoke an optimistic, technologically progressive future. The Perisphere was 180 feet in diameter, connected to the 610-foot high spire of the Trylon by what was then the world’s longest escalator. The Perisphere housed “Democracity,” a diorama designed by Henry Dreyfuss that depicted a utopian city of the future.