Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0196Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a birdseye view of Manhattan, the skyscrappers are prominately featured. Above the image "T37 (Star)" is printed, below the image "32779T Manhattan's Towering Crags as Seen from an Airplane, New York City. Copyrighted Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
32779
MANHATTAN'S TOWERING CRAGS FROM THE AIR
With what fascination we view from the air this supreme wonder of the modern world, the skycrapers of Manhattan. These massive piles and climbing towers admirably typify the strength and courage, the energy and enterprise of America for the skyscraper is an American invention.
Directly in the foreground is Battery Park. The low round buiding you see at the left is the Aquarium while at the right can be seen the ferry and steamship piers. Back of the Park, the elevated railroad looks like a black line. Just beyond, you see the United States Customhouse buildt as three slides of a hollow square. It fronts Bowing Green, a tiny oval park where Broadway begins.
Looking up the canyon of Broadway, you will readily recognize the Woolworth Building, now the fifth highest, as the last gleaming strucrue at the left. The tall building at the right with the dark, pyramidal, roof is the Bank of Manhattan, which holds fourth place. New York's sixth hightest building is the structure in the right foreground, while the tall building back of it, and still farther to the right, is the Doherty, ranking third.
In the background at the left, rises the world's greatest building, the Emprie State. It has 102 stories and is 1,248 feet high. The conspicously slender tower, nearly as tall, a few streets to the right marks the Chrysler Building. It has 77 stories and is 1,046 feet hihg. Still farther to the right, along the East River, you can see the apartment houses of Tudor City. The dark area back of the Emprie State building is Central Park which has for the time halted the northward march of these giants.
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