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Singer Tower, New York City – Antique Print

Singer Tower, New York City, c1908. — historic photograph
Singer Tower, New York City, c1908.. 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 Singer Tower, New York City. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Singer Tower, New York City

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The Singer Tower rose at Broadway and Liberty Street in Lower Manhattan, and it was the tallest building in the world when it was completed around 1908. Designed by architect Ernest Flagg for the Singer Sewing Machine Company, it stood about 612 feet high, a title it held only until the Metropolitan Life Tower surpassed it the following year. This photoprint by Irving Underhill, a New York photographer, captures the tower in its early years, when its slender profile still looked remarkable against the surrounding lower-Manhattan streets.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Irving Underhill, New York. No. C-6370. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,224 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155848

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