New York in the decades it went up: Lewis Hine on the steel of the Empire State Building in 1930 and 1931, Lunch atop a Skyscraper (1932), Berenice Abbott's Changing New York in the 1930s, and Samuel Gottscho's Rockefeller Center and Chrysler Building.
Earlier views of the Flatiron Building and the Brooklyn Bridge come from the Detroit Publishing Company around 1905 to 1910; later ones show the World Trade Center rising over Lower Manhattan in the 1970s, and the Navy's airships Akron and Macon over the city.
Tall pictures such as Columbus Circle, the Manhattan Bridge and the Flatiron suit a narrow wall or a hallway; the wide skylines suit a sofa or desk wall.
41 works in this collection, dated 1900 to 2006. Most represented: Berenice Abbott (9), Lewis Hine (6), and Balthazar Korab (5). Sources include Library of Congress, New York Public Library, and Preus Museum.
