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Major exhibition on polymath designer Norman Bel Geddes to open at MCNY
Richard Garrison, Bel Geddes with Futurama Diorama, ca. 1939. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center Norman Bel Geddes & Co., Inc., Norman Bel Geddes with blueprints. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center Maurice Goldberg. Norman Bel Geddes's model of the Aerial Restaurant, ca. 1930. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center Richard Garrison, GM Highways and Horizons building with obelisk, ca. 1939. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center Norman Bel Geddes, Motor Car No. 9 (without tail fin), ca. 1933 Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center. Vandamm Studio, 'Travel Smartly in Tweed' window display for Franklin Simon, ca. 1929 Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center Norman Bel Geddes, 'Through the City of Tomorrow without a Stop,' advertisement for Shell Oil advertising campaign, ca. 1932-1938 Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center 'I Have Seen the Future' button, 1940. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center

'I Have Seen the Future' button, 1940. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center
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"I Have Seen the Future" button, 1940. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation / Harry Ransom Center