Empire State Building, New York City (back)

Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York.

The back of the postcard has a description, "The Empire State Building, the tallest in the world: 1248 feet from sidewalk to tip of mooring mast. Equal to 102 stories: 85 stories of office space, 62 express elevators; houses twenty thousand people in more than two million feet of floor space." Postcard has also a personal message, addressed to Miss Elise Kilber in Waterford, Ohio, "Dear Elise, Have been out here for a few weeks. This is the tallest building in the world. Love to your mother and regards to the Bill." It is signed Anna Kelly.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Postcards

Empire State Building, New York City.

Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.)

Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York.

Thirty-fourth Street (New York, N.Y.)

Airships--New York (State)--New York.

Midtown Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.)

Another color postcard with an idealized drawing of the Empire State Building. The image erroneously shows the mooring mast shaped like a pylon and functioning like a lighthouse, with beams streaking out of it on two sides and into the night. A dirigible approaches the mast, perhaps to dock with the building. The mooring mast was originally designed to dock dirigibles, but the wind currents surrounding the Empire State Building made it impossible.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

New York: Lumitone Photography. Made in U.S.A.

ca. 1931

Unknown

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Postcards

350 Fifth Avenue, between 33rd and 34th Streets