Chase Manhattan Bank – Vintage Wall Art
![Chase Manhattan Bank, [ca. 1968] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8d2eeb85eb07-L.webp)
(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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Chase Manhattan Bank
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Few buildings in Lower Manhattan look as sculptural from above as the Chase Manhattan Bank headquarters, and this aerial view, made around 1968, shows its tinted glass tower rising from the open plaza around its base. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the building, and SOM partner Nathaniel Owings is the author of the book in which this photograph appeared. The tower was completed in 1961 as a statement of corporate confidence in the city's financial district. Photographer William Garnett used the high vantage point to turn the building and its surrounding streets into a near-abstract pattern.
| Created / published | [ca. 1968] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Aerial photographs 1960-1970.Photographic prints 1960-1970. |
| Notes | Published in: The American aesthetic / Nathaniel Owings ; Photos. by William Garnett ; Introd. by S. Dillon Ripley. New York : Harper & Row, [1969], p. 113. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1979:318 |
| Subjects | Chase Manhattan Bank--1960-1970. Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,169 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218705 |
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