World's Fair, 1936 - 1940

During his tenure as Secretary of the NYZS Board of Trustees, Osborn oversaw the development and management of the Society’s pavilion at the 1939-1940 World’s Fair in Queens. The bulk of this subseries relates to the financial aspects of this work. There is also correspondence concerning the exhibit’s design and construction, as well as materials related to popular features of the exhibit, which included the Bathysphere in which NYZS’s William Beebe and his collaborator Otis Barton made their record-setting undersea explorations, the giant panda Pandora from the Bronx Zoo, and an electric eel exhibit from the New York Aquarium.