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The Government Zone (Zone 1)
1939 New York World's Fair

Brazil


Architects: Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer Soares

Photo D129 - Brazil from the Dr. William R. Hanson Collection
Photo D129 - Brazil from the Dr. William R. Hanson Collection

Various exhibition hall are devoted to to showing the Brazilian government's efforts in furthering labor legislation, agriculture, and education. Displays of Brazilian's products such as cocoa, cotton, rubber vegetable oils, mate, and their most familiar - coffee, are a wondrous sight.

From the second floor, which is accessible via an exquisitely designed ramp, visitors view a beautiful tropical garden with an unusual collection of Brazilian plants including the "Victoria-regia" from the Amazon River.