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[Sky scrapers from Cortlandt Street Ferry, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Sky scrapers from Cortlandt Street Ferry, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Sky scrapers from Cortlandt Street Ferry, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1910]. 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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Taken from the Cortlandt Street ferry slip on the Hudson, this view frames the City Investment Building and Singer Tower at the center, with the West Street Building at the right. All three rose during the first decade of the 1900s, when Lower Manhattan's skyline was changing quickly. The waterfront vantage point shows the new office towers looming over the piers and wharves that had handled the city's shipping for generations. The Detroit Publishing Company, which marketed large-format views of American cities and landscapes, made this glass-plate negative during those same years.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. City Investment Building and Singer Tower in center, West Street Building at right. G 4883" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036354. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSkyscrapers. Office buildings. Piers & wharves.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67855

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