c. 1913New York
Looking down from the Woolworth tower
Period stereograph from the new tower.
Elevated photograph
c. 1913·New York
Looking down from the Woolworth tower
Period stereograph from the new tower.
Elevated photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
New York photographed from the Woolworth tower shortly after it opened: roofs, streets, the harbor edge. An elevated photograph from a known high-rise, not a bird’s-eye lithograph and not a balloon plate. The camera is on steel-frame architecture looking at whatever still stood around it.
- Image type
- Elevated photograph
- Structure
- Woolworth Building (camera position)
- Region
- North America
- Documented completion
- 1913
- Architect
- Cass Gilbert
- Present status
- Surviving — The tower still stands. The city beneath it did not freeze in 1913.
- Source
- Library of Congress stereo collection (1s07820).
- License
- Public domain.
Chronologies
An 1873 harbor lithograph, then cameras on steel-frame construction: Flatiron 1902, Woolworth ironwork 1912, the finished tower, the city seen from it. Singer Tower, photographed standing, was demolished in 1967–68 — that demolition is a separate documented event.
New York — masonry to steel frame