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[New York City: New York skyscrapers from Brooklyn] – Vintage Wall Art

[New York City: New York skyscrapers from Brooklyn], c1911. — historic photograph
[New York City: New York skyscrapers from Brooklyn], c1911.. 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 [New York City: New York skyscrapers from Brooklyn]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Seen from across the East River, the skyline in this c1911 view shows Manhattan's towers rising above the Brooklyn waterfront. The picture's caption card is marked as unverified, so its details come from the old record rather than confirmed sources. Around 1911 the city's tallest buildings, including the Singer Building and the Metropolitan Life Tower, were relatively new symbols of a commercial boom that made lower Manhattan a dense forest of steel-frame offices. Views like this one, taken from Brooklyn, recorded how quickly the financial district was building upward.

Created / publishedc1911.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. D546. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 909 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147784

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