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New York's newest skyscraper.. to be ready next summer
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Photograph shows architect's drawing for the new Standard Oil Building and surrounding business district.
Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.
No. S345568.
Date on verso: Dec 12 1923.
Caption on verso: "Photograph of the architect's drawing for the new Standard Oil Building, now being erected at the famous address 26 Broadway, corner of Beaver Street, New York. Like all of New York's newest skyscrapers, it is "tapered" to allow the city some light and air, and is of a modernized classsic design. The bottom tier is of ten stories, then the next cut-in is at the 16th then the 18th; and the 22nd, which starts the ten story tower, surmounted by an ornamental "pyramid", the tip of which will be 505 feet from the sidewalk. The building will cost more than seven millioon dollars, according to rough estimates, and is to be finished next August 1. The architects are Carrere & Hastings, Shreve, Lamb, and Blake, of New York".
Title from news agency caption on item.
Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
The New York World-Telegram, later known as the New York World-Telegram and The Sun, was a New York City newspaper from 1931 to 1967. The Library of Congress collection includes about 1 million photographs that the New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper assembled mostly 1890 and 1967, the year in which the newspaper closed. This newspaper photo morgue is typical of the files that newspapers maintain of images that either were published or were believed to have some future publication potential. Such files were periodically "weeded" by newspaper staff members. Much of the photography used by newspapers is "quick copy," and many images have been cropped, retouched, or highlighted for publication. Some images were taken by the newspaper's staff photographers while others came from wire press services, studios, or amateur photographers.
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