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Windsplit: 1903
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 4:14pm.
New York circa 1903. "The Flatiron Building." Yet another view of this early skyscraper, from what seems to be the favored vantage. This is the uncropped variant of a Detroit Publishing view seen here last year. View full size.
Hay!
Submitted by djh on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 5:47pm.
You probably don't see many haywagons traveling down those streets nowadays.
Vantage
Submitted by mattbklyn on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 4:01pm.
Any idea where the photographer may have stood to take this?
"Rear End" View
Submitted by flickr4jazz on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 8:25pm.
Not quite as impressive from the rear, but still a beautiful building!
The Continental
Submitted by Mr Mel on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 6:37pm.
About 10 years after this picture was taken, Thomas Riley Marshall, Woodrow Wilson's vice president, said something about the Country needing a good five-cent cigar. In this picture, the Hotel Bartoldi, just east of the Flatiron Building on 23rd Street, has a sign on its roof hawking the Continental Cigar for 10 cents. That had to be one good smoke.
2nd story
Submitted by Chris_K on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 6:08pm.
Is the guy standing outside washing the windows or painting a sign on the glass?
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