Building at State Street & Battery Park, New York City, 1939

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1939-05-24
10 x 8 x 0 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on May 24, 1939. Image of Building at State Street and Battery Park, New York City. Visible in image: block of buildings at the corner of Whitehall and State Streets, to the far left is the roof top of Castle Clinton through the trees, then along State Street, the Federal style rowhouse of James B. Watson at 7 State Street, The "STANDARD / SHIPPING OFFICE" at 5 State Street with decorative arched frieze along roofline, The "NEWS / PROJECTION / CORPORATION" at 1 State Street with concave floral arches over the top windows and arched friezes along roofline, along Whitehall Street is a shorter building with pediments over the second floor windows with balconies and ledge with decorative edge built out under top floor windows. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “54685 5/24/39 / 2538-3 / South Ferry Realty Co / 25 Broad Street, City / Miss McCarthy, Room 716 / Photo of Bldg at State St & / Battery Park, City“.

1984.187.54685

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection