Bird's eye view of lower New York
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Item data
Title
Bird's eye view of lower New York
Collection
Historical postcards of New York City
New York City -- Air views -- 1900s
Names
Success Postal Card Co. (Publisher)
Schenck & Co. (Artist)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1914 (Approximate)
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC POC NEW YC-Air-19
Subjects
Piers & wharves -- New York (State) -- New York
Battery Park (New York, N.Y.)
Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1910-1919
Genres
Notes
Content: "This is a most wonderful picture of the lower end of Manhattan with its huge skyscrapers, where is centered the business interests of 10,000,000 people. It is here that the Huson and East Rivers meet. Here is also the spot of the first Dutch settlement."--printed on verso.
Statement Of Responsibility: "Copyright 1914 C Souhami New York" ; "Drawn by Schenck & Co"--printed on image. "Success Postal Card Co., Pub., New York. No. 1116."--printed on verso.
Physical Description
Extent: 9 x 14 cm or 14 x 9 cm
Halftone photomechanical prints
Water damage at top corners.
Identifiers
Barcode: 33333201350036
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): bb929d40-c55b-012f-553f-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1914
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MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Bird's eye view of lower New York" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1914. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bb929d40-c55b-012f-553f-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1914). Bird's eye view of lower New York Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bb929d40-c55b-012f-553f-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Bird's eye view of lower New York" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bb929d40-c55b-012f-553f-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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