New York Life Insurance Co. Building, 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.)
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A window into the past: New York Life Insurance Co. Building, New York City, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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New York Life Insurance Co. Building, New York City
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Rising above the Madison Square district, the New York Life Insurance Company Building was one of the city's major office towers of the late 1920s. Cass Gilbert designed the headquarters, which was completed in 1928 at Madison Avenue and East 26th Street, and its tall, ornamented shaft shows the period's enthusiasm for skyscrapers. The print dates to about 1929 and was issued by Browning Studios, a commercial photography firm, so its catalog-style view reflects the way such companies documented new buildings for clients and publications. The record's date and attributions are unverified, so the exact circumstances of the image are uncertain.
| Created / published | c1929. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Browning Studios. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Insurance; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,199 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145437 |
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