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[Singer, City Investing, and Hudson Terminal Bldgs.] – Antique Wall Art

[Singer, City Investing, and Hudson Terminal Bldgs.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Singer, City Investing, and Hudson Terminal Bldgs.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Step back in time with [Singer, City Investing, and Hudson Terminal Bldgs.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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This panorama, stitched from two glass negatives, shows the Singer Tower rising behind the City Investing Building on the left, with the Hudson Terminal complex at the center of the right-hand frame. Those three towers marked the rapid vertical growth of lower Manhattan in the years before 1915, when steel framing and electric elevators made office blocks taller than anyone had built before. The Singer Tower, finished in 1908, was for a time the tallest building in the world, and the Hudson Terminal served the railway tunnels that linked Manhattan to New Jersey. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced the image, sold views like this to travelers and to businesses eager to show off a modern American city.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCityscape photographs.Dry plate negatives.Panoramic photographs.
NotesTitle from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-25032, 25031. Singer tower behind City Investing building in background on left negative; Hudson Terminal at center on right negative. G 5126" on left negative; "G 5128" on right neagtive. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 090238. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsOffice buildings. Skyscrapers.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan816 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74402

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