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[Bird's-eye view of New York City, with the 59th Street (Queensboro) Bridge in the background] – Antique Map Print

[Bird's-eye view of New York City, with the 59th Street (Queensboro) Bridge in the background] — historic photograph
[Bird's-eye view of New York City, with the 59th Street (Queensboro) Bridge in the background]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Bird's-eye view of New York City, with the 59th Street (Queensboro) Bridge in the background]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Looking down on Manhattan from above, this view around 1933 places the 59th Street, or Queensboro, Bridge in the far distance, its steel cantilevers spanning the East River toward Long Island City. The bridge opened in 1909 and was among the longest cantilever spans in the world at the time, carrying traffic between Midtown and Queens. By the early 1930s, the city's dense blocks of towers and rooftops, much of it built during the boom of the 1920s, made aerial views like this one a striking way to show how tightly the island was packed.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1933.
SubjectsBuildings--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Queensboro Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--1930-1940. New York (N.Y.)--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178122

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