New York City at night from Empire State Building – Vintage Photo Print
(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 historic photograph of New York City at night from Empire State Building brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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New York City at night from Empire State Building
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From the observation decks of the Empire State Building, this night view looks down on the grid of Manhattan streets and the lit windows of the surrounding towers. The building opened in 1931 and remained the tallest in the world until the early 1970s, so images like this one showed a city from a height few visitors could otherwise reach. The record credits the copyright to Vincent Lopez and dates the print to February 5, 1937, placing it in the winter of that year, about six years after the tower opened.
| Created / published | c1937 Feb. 5. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Aerial photographs 1930-1940.Night photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | J20958 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Vincent Lopez. |
| Subjects | Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. New York (N.Y.)--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,145 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162657 |
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