Two plates, as made
New York
Both are labeled street photograph. Read what each actually shows.
1912·New York
Woolworth Building — ironwork, 4 April 1912
Unidentified photographer. Dated on the negative 4 April 1912.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The Woolworth frame going up: steel, timber staging, neighboring masonry, a street of carts. Dated 4 April 1912. A camera on a building site. The finished tower is a later plate. Do not collapse construction and completion into one image.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Woolworth Building
- Region
- North America
- Documented completion
- 1913
- Architect
- Cass Gilbert
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands. This plate is construction, not the finished tower.
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, ppmsca.54252.
- License
- Public domain.
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.