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New York City, east from Wall St. – Historic Print

New York City, east from Wall St. — historic photograph
New York City, east from Wall St.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of New York City, east from Wall St.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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New York City, east from Wall St.

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Taken from the air around 1930, this view looks east from Wall Street toward the East River, with the waterways and bridges that link Manhattan to Brooklyn spread out below. Aerial photography of the city was still relatively new then, and pictures like this gave viewers a bird's-eye sense of the dense grid of streets and towers at the island's southern tip. The Brooklyn Bridge, opened in 1883, and the Manhattan Bridge, completed in 1909, are among the crossings that carry traffic over the water in views like this. The photographer credited on the caption card is Irving Underhill of New York.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1930.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by Irving Underhill, N.Y.C. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Aerial photog.; Rivers; Bridges; NY--NYC--Bridges; Photog. I.; NY--NYC--Views--ca. 1930; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,206 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137566

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