The Tallest buildings in the world, New York City – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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.)
Description
The Tallest buildings in the world, New York City comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The Tallest buildings in the world, New York City
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
The Park Row Building, finished in 1899, rises at the center of this color view and was for a short time among the tallest office buildings in the world. Its neighbor, the Saint Paul Building, had gone up a year earlier, and together they show how quickly lower Manhattan was climbing skyward at the turn of the century. The print was made by the Detroit Publishing Company using the photochrom process, a Swiss method that combined photographs with hand-applied color stones, and it was one of many city views the company produced for catalogs and sales use.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53635. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. |
| Subjects | Park Row Building (New York, N.Y.) Saint Paul Building (New York, N.Y.) Office buildings. Skyscrapers.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,124 × 1,446 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218925 |
More from the New York City collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
![[View of Union Square, New York City, showing park and surrounding buildings]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fbff327d6e94-400.webp)
![[New York City: Gillender & Hanover Bank Buildings]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2b/2b2dc9a9d2c9-400.webp)
![[William Gibbs McAdoo presenting the Roosevelt trophy replica to Yakima Canutt, world champion cowboy. In the rear are Dorothy Morrell, Donna Card Glover and Tommy Grimes, New York City]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/96/965c4e9d7196-400.webp)
