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Transportation and Woolworth Buildings, New York City – Vintage Photo Print

Transportation and Woolworth Buildings, New York City, c1927. — historic photograph
Transportation and Woolworth Buildings, New York City, c1927.. Historic photograph from the New York City 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 Transportation and Woolworth Buildings, New York City, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Transportation and Woolworth Buildings, New York City

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Few views of lower Manhattan frame the Woolworth Building and the Transportation Building together as clearly as this one. Cass Gilbert designed the Woolworth Building, completed in 1913, and its Gothic detailing and height of roughly 790 feet made it the tallest building in the world until 1930, earning it the nickname "Cathedral of Commerce." The c1927 date places the picture in the years when downtown towers were crowding the skyline, and the print carries the copyright of Irving Underhill, a New York City photographer.

Created / publishedc1927.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Irving Underhill, N.Y.C. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,200 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155995

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