Ritz Tower Building, Park Ave. & 57th St., 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Ritz Tower Building, Park Ave. & 57th St., New York City. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ritz Tower Building, Park Ave. & 57th St., New York City
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The Ritz Tower stood at the corner of Park Avenue and 57th Street, a 1920s hotel and apartment tower designed to signal the confidence of the city's boom years. Completed in 1925, it was among the tallest residential buildings of its era, and its Art Deco-leaning profile was a striking addition to Midtown. Irving Underhill's photograph, copyrighted and catalogued around 1926, captures it shortly after it opened, when the district was still rapidly reshaping itself around new skyscrapers and luxury hotels.
| Created / published | c1926. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. C17942. No copyright renewal. Reference copy may be in Geog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Hotels. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,227 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147832 |
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