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Flatiron Building, 23rd St. & 5th Ave., New York – Vintage Photo Print

Flatiron Building, 23rd St. & 5th Ave., New York — historic print
Flatiron Building, 23rd St. & 5th Ave., New York. Historic print 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 print captures Flatiron Building, 23rd St. & 5th Ave., New York in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Flatiron Building, 23rd St. & 5th Ave., New York

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The Flatiron's wedge-shaped footprint at Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street gave the building its nickname, and this halftone reproduces a postcard view of it. The picture appeared in the February 1912 issue of the *Ladies Home Journal*, a sign of how widely the building's image circulated by then. Designed by Daniel Burnham and completed in 1902, the steel-framed tower was among the city's tallest structures when it opened. Printed by halftone, the view shows how magazines and postcards turned such landmarks into everyday images.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notes1912
SubjectsHalftone repro. of postcard view. Illus. in: Ladies Home Journal, Feb. 1912, p. 23. Reference copy may be in LTO 4383-H. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Bldgs.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,075 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136477

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