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Skyscrapers rise in San Francisco
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Photograph shows downtown San Francisco with the 44 Montgomery Street skyscraper towering over the Hobart Building on right.
United Press International telephoto.
No. NXP 1542737.
Date on verso: Feb 1 1967.
Caption on verso: "San Francisco, Calif.: This view of skyscrapers rising into the air above San Francisco was taken with a fisheye lens. Skyscrapers are rising at a rapid pace here, and 53-year-old Henry J. Degenkolb, a former president of the California Association of Structural Engineers, believe that in the event of another earthquake in this area, several buildings might well collapse".
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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