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[Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
[Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1905]. 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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[Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.]

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The Flatiron Building, named for its triangular footprint at the junction of Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, was among the first steel-framed skyscrapers to stand out so sharply against the Manhattan skyline. Designed by Daniel Burnham and completed in 1902, it rises twenty stories above a wedge-shaped lot that forced the architect to narrow the building to a sharp prow. This glass negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American cities for commercial sale in the early 1900s. The plate captures the street scene around the building as it looked in its first years, when its novelty drew crowds and the surrounding avenue was still mixed with horse-drawn traffic.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30841. Title devised by cataloger. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062021. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsOffice buildings. Skyscrapers. Streets.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan798 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70772

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