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[Aerial view of New York Harbor, November 2, 1934] – Vintage Photo Print

[Aerial view of New York Harbor, November 2, 1934], c1934. — historic photograph
[Aerial view of New York Harbor, November 2, 1934], c1934.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Aerial view of New York Harbor, November 2, 1934] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Aerial view of New York Harbor, November 2, 1934]

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Few aerial views from the 1930s capture New York Harbor as completely as this one, which was taken from the air in early November 1934 by Fairchild Aerial Surveys, a firm that mapped and photographed American cities and coastlines from low-flying planes. The harbor was then the busiest port on the East Coast, with its piers, ferry slips and shipping lanes spread across the water between Manhattan, Brooklyn, New Jersey and Staten Island. Fairchild's survey work was valued for its detail, and images like this one were used by planners, engineers and government agencies to study the waterfront. The record's details are based on an old caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1934.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Aerial phot.; Ph.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,198 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-106857

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