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[Bird's-eye view of Trinity Church, New York City] – Historic Map Reproduction

[Bird's-eye view of Trinity Church, New York City], c1912 Nov. 30. — historic photograph
[Bird's-eye view of Trinity Church, New York City], c1912 Nov. 30.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Bird's-eye view of Trinity Church, New York City]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Seen from above, this view shows Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, its Gothic Revival steeple rising out of a dense cluster of commercial buildings. Richard Upjohn designed the brownstone church, completed in the 1840s, and by the early twentieth century its spire was dwarfed by the new office towers filling the financial district. The photographer, Irving Underhill, registered a copyright on the image, and the record dates it to about 1912, though that date comes from an older caption card and has not been verified. The contrast between the old church and the rising skyscrapers is what makes the picture worth a second look.

Created / publishedc1912 Nov. 30.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesJ175983 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Irving Underhill. Underhill Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Churches; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,205 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147021

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