Broadway, looking South ; "Flat-iron" ; Madison Square ; Fifth Avenue, looking South ; Fifth Avenue Hotel
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Research CatalogImage ID
804867
Item data
Title
Broadway, looking South ; "Flat-iron" ; Madison Square ; Fifth Avenue, looking South ; Fifth Avenue Hotel
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
New York City -- Flatiron Building
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1893
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC NEW YC-Fla
Subjects
Streets -- New York (State) -- New York
City & town life -- New York (State) -- New York
Fifth Avenue Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
Flatiron Building (New York, N.Y.)
Genres
Notes
Content: "The Fuller building, popularly called "The Flat-iron," Fifth Avenue, Broadway, twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets. This remarkable, imposing triangular structure is one of many great properties controlled by the United States Realty & Construction Co. Its peculiar shape, towering height -- 286 feet, 20 stories -- and conspicuous situation make it one of the best-known buildings in America. One of the wonders of the age."--printed on border.
Source Note: A tour around New York and my summer acre : being the recreations of Mr. Felix Oldboy. (New York : Harper, 1893) Mines, John Flavel, Author.
Physical Description
Halftone photomechanical prints
Extent: 23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 in.)
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17538237
Barcode: 33333159157839
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ddab83d0-c55a-012f-121e-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1893
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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. "Broadway, looking South ; "Flat-iron" ; Madison Square ; Fifth Avenue, looking South ; Fifth Avenue Hotel" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1893. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ddab83d0-c55a-012f-121e-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1893). Broadway, looking South ; "Flat-iron" ; Madison Square ; Fifth Avenue, looking South ; Fifth Avenue Hotel Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ddab83d0-c55a-012f-121e-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Broadway, looking South ; "Flat-iron" ; Madison Square ; Fifth Avenue, looking South ; Fifth Avenue Hotel" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 13, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ddab83d0-c55a-012f-121e-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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