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[Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York, N.Y.] – Antique Photo Print

[Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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[Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York, N.Y.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few buildings announced the arrival of the modern skyscraper as plainly as the Metropolitan Life tower at Madison Square. Completed in 1909, the insurance company's headquarters took its campanile form from the bell tower of St. Mark's in Venice and held the title of world's tallest building for a few years. This Detroit Publishing Company view, made on a large glass-plate negative between 1900 and 1915, shows the tower rising beside the open greenery of the park, a pairing that captured the city's new vertical ambitions.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 6337" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039126. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsOffice buildings. Insurance. Skyscrapers. Parks.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68814

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