Guardian Life Bldg., 4th Av. & 17th St. – Historic Print
(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 Guardian Life Bldg., 4th Av. & 17th St.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Guardian Life Bldg., 4th Av. & 17th St.
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Standing at the corner of Fourth Avenue and 17th Street, the Guardian Life Building anchors one of the busiest intersections on the east edge of Union Square. Insurance companies in this period often built prominent headquarters in Manhattan's commercial core, using large street-front facades to project stability to policyholders. Irving Underhill, a New York photographer who registered this view for copyright, recorded many such commercial buildings in the 1910s. The print's date of 1918 or about 1919 places it near the end of the decade, when the streetscape around the square was filled with offices, shops and motor traffic.
| Created / published | 1918, c1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J232809 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y.C. |
| Subjects | Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,787 × 4,671 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220060 |
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