Skyscrapers from Battery Park - 1939
It was published in Portrait of New York by Felix Reisenberg and Alexander Alland, Copyright 1939. by Macmillan Company. Source: Photographic views of New York City from the collections of New York Public Library.
The Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street, now Trump Building, was completed in May 1930. It is crowned by a pyramidal roof capped by a spire. It was the world's tallest building for about two months, when it was surpassed by Chrysler Building.
Buildings in Lower Manhattan seen from The Battery, with Castle Clinton on the right. Photograph by Alexander Alland with the following text on verso: Battery Park: The Bowling Green-Broadway area as viewed from the rear of the Aquarium. Outstanding there is the distinctive Standard Oil Company Building. The inspiring Bank of Manhattan Tower is just beyond. 1938-9 (published April 1939). Continue below...
Standard Oil Company Building
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Skyscrapers from Battery Park - 1939