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

Empire State Building (back)

The caption, which is historically inaccurate, reads:, "In 1799 a man named Thompson owned a farm at what is now Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street, New York City. He later sold it and in 1827 the Astor Mansions were erected there by William Astor. These made way in 1893 for the famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a social and political center for many years. In 1929 the hotel was demolished and on the site was erected the tallest building in the world, Empire State, rising 102 stories above the street." There is also a personal note, "Elizabeth and I visited the Empire State observatory July 1, 1932."

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.

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

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

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

Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.)

Midtown Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

This color postcard is an idealized drawing of the Empire State Building. At the base of the building are houses and tenements. Next to the building is a list of structures with the dates of when these buildings stood on the site before the Empire State Building was built in 1931. Designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet high and was once the tallest building in the world.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

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

New York: Offset Gravure Corp. Made in U.S.A.

ca. 1930

Frank Hazell

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

Postcards

350 Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets