Two plates, as made
New York
Street photograph beside elevated photograph. Do not treat them as the same kind of evidence.
c. 1913·New York
Woolworth Building
Period stereograph. Issued as the tower newly completed.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The completed Woolworth tower photographed from the street: Gothic cladding on a steel frame, the sidewalk, neighboring piles. A camera at the foot of a finished high-rise. Set it beside the 1873 harbor lithograph and beside the April 1912 ironwork plate. Three different kinds of record.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Woolworth Building
- Region
- North America
- Documented completion
- 1913
- Architect
- Cass Gilbert
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands at 233 Broadway.
- Source
- Library of Congress stereo collection (1s06999).
- License
- Public domain.
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.