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Singer Building, New York – Antique Photo Print

Singer Building, New York, c1908. — historic photograph
Singer Building, New York, 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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This rare historic photograph captures Singer Building, New York in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Singer Building, New York

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Few towers of its era rose as high as the Singer Building, which the Singer Sewing Machine Company completed in 1908 on lower Broadway near Liberty Street. Architect Ernest Flagg gave it a slender, tapering shaft, and for a brief stretch it held the title of world's tallest building. The Detroit Publishing Company, known for its color and black-and-white views of American cities, recorded it on two nearly identical glass plate negatives, so the pair shows how a photographer might have framed the same tower from slightly different positions.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 5.5 x 3.5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNegatives are close variants. Detroit Publishing Co. no. P 75. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsSkyscrapers. Office buildings.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan652 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77427

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