Empire State Building, 34th St. & 5th Ave. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Empire State Building, 34th St. & 5th Ave., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Empire State Building, 34th St. & 5th Ave.
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Shot from street level at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, this view puts the Empire State Building at the center of a busy Midtown block around 1931, the year the tower opened. Its 102 stories rose in roughly a year and a half, a pace that made it a symbol of ambition during the early Depression. The photograph was made by the Irving Underhill studio, a New York firm that sold street and architectural views of the city, so the picture doubles as a record of how the building and its surroundings looked when the skyline was still changing quickly.
| Created / published | c1931. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | JO8771 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc, NYC. No. C 20611. |
| Subjects | Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.)--1930-1940. Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Streets--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,802 × 4,676 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220048 |
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