Blair Bldg. etc. Exchange Pl. & Broad St. – Antique 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 Blair Bldg. etc. Exchange Pl. & Broad 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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Blair Bldg. etc. Exchange Pl. & Broad St.
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This view looks down the intersection of Exchange Place and Broad Street, where the Blair Building stands among the banking and brokerage houses of Lower Manhattan's financial district. The photograph dates to about 1932, only a few years after the 1929 stock market crash, when the district's towering office blocks were still a symbol of the city's commercial power. It was made by the commercial firm Irving Underhill, Inc., which sold copyrighted street views of New York in the 1930s. Such photographs now record the streetscape, signage and dense cornice lines of a neighborhood that was about to change under Depression-era hardships.
| Created / published | c1932. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | J12230 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc., NYC. No. C 20726. |
| Subjects | Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,811 × 4,643 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220057 |
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