1939 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR Vintage Photo SUNDIAL in SILHOUETTE

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This is a VINTAGE PHOTO from the 1939 New York World's Fair featuring THE SUNDIAL in Silhouette
The Sundial was made by Paul Manship for the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The Three Fates, "The Daughters of Necessity," sitting under the tree that holds up the sundial's pointer,;
The Sun Dial by Manship
Paul Manship was commissioned to make the sundial for the 1939 World's Fair in New York.
The dial was named "Time and the Fates of Man." Manship wrote, "The Perisphere and Trylon at the World's Fair suggests to me measurements of time and space, so my sundial… relates to the background of the central motif of the Fair."
His white plaster sculpture was the biggest sundial in the world, standing 80 feet tall.
Underneath the gnomon are the Three Fates, the daughters of Themis, the Goddess of Necessity. Sitting under the tree that holds up the sundial's gnomon are Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, known together as The Fates.
All living things must eventually submit to these divine daughters of Zeus and Themis.
Life is woven by Clotho, measured by Lachesis and, finally, in a very literal sense, the thread of life is cut by Atropos.
The god Apollo looks on in the guise of a crow.
PHOTO is about 2 x 4
PHOTO in FAIR CONDITION.
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