Sky Scraper Collection

Building Emp State Buil
A dizzy perch 350 yards above street level: A New York workman (Carl Russell) engaged on the worlds tallest bulding (at the time), the Empire State Building

Houdini & Skyscraper
Suspended from the cornice of a New York skyscraper, he must somehow free himself of his chains and make his way to safety... will he do it ? Is this one trick too many ?

Poster advertising New York by rail
Poster encouraging people to travel by train to New York on the Pennsylvania Railroad

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Kavanagh Building and Parque Retiro. Built in the 1930s in the Rationalist style, by the architects Gregorio S£ hez

The Empire State Building, New York, 1945
Photograph of the Empire State Building, New York. At 1250 foot high, it was then the tallest skyscraper in the world

Chicago Board of Trade Building and Observatory, USA Date: circa 1940s

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Salico Building Date: circa 1930s

New York skyline 1937
The skark beauty of the vertical lines of the New York scrapers forms a striking pattern in this fine camera study of the famous city. Date: 1937

The Chrysler Building, New York
The Chrysler Building, skyscraper with Art Deco architecture in New York, America circa 2008

Shell OIl Building, San Francisco, USA
The Shell OIl Building, San Francisco, USA Date: circa 1920s

Singer Building, New York, USA Date: circa 1920s

American Building, Baltimore, Maryland
USA - The American Building, Baltimore, Maryland Date: 1907

Hotel Commonwealth, New York City, USA Date: circa 1910s

Porgramme cover for the Capitol Theatre, New York, 1928
Programme cover for the Capitol Theatre, New York, 1928. This was a movie picture palace that also had a stage show in suppport of the feature film. Date: 1928

USA - Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York
USA - Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Park Avenue, New York Date: circa 1930s

Chicago Skyscraper
The Field Building, on Lasalle, Clark & Adams streets, 535 feet (163m) high Date: circa 1930

Aeroplane over Chicago
This view of an aeroplane over the Art Institute, Chicago, was not taken from an aeroplane, as one might think, but from a skyscraper. Date: 1916

Looking West up Wall Street - New York, USA
The Financial center of the World ! Looking West up Wall Street, New York City, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Rockefeller Building - Cleveland, Ohio, USA - the building opened in 1905 (the date of this picture) and was then extended in 1910. Date: 1905

Frick Building and Annex, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Date: 1910

New York of the future
New York City of the future, America

View of Pyongyang, North Korea
General view of Pyongyang, capital of North Korea, across the Taedong River in the early morning

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Safico Building. Photo (38/40) from a fold-out set

Argentina - Buenos Aires - View of the city
Partial view over the city showing the skyscrapers. Photo (5/40) from a fold-out set

Buenos Aires - British Plaza and Kavanagh Building
Argentina - Buenos Aires - British Plaza and Kavanagh Building. Photo (19/40) from a fold-out set

General view of Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
A general view of the central business district of Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, with a boat travelling across the harbour

Modern buildings, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
Modern buildings in the Potsdamer Platz, seen from the Leipziger Strasse, Berlin, Germany

Berlin wall display and skyscraper, Germany
A modern skyscraper towers above a display of some remains of the Berlin Wall, in the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany

Modern office building, Berlin, Germany
A modern office building at the Potsdamer Platz metro station in Berlin, Germany

Municipal and Woolworth Buildings, New York
Manhattan Municipal and Woolworth Buildings, New York, USA. The Woolworth Building was the worlds tallest building from 1913 to 1930. View from the North River (Hudson River)

Poster advertising White Star to New York
Poster by Frank Newbould advertising White Star cruises to New York, showing the Empire State Building and other skyscrapers

Damage to the 78th and 79th Floors, Empire State Building, N
Photograph showing the damage to the Empire State Building caused when a Mitchell bomber flew into the 78th and 79th floors on the 28th July 1945. The pilot of the airplane, Lieutenant-Colonel W.F

Dollar in Trouble / 1933
Americas false optimism at the time of the depression - not noticing the leak in the dollar balloon blue skies ahead are promised

Boston Skyscraper
Glass galore in downtown Boston

Boston Skyscraper 2
The statue and the skyscraper, downtown Boston

To solve Londons car-garaging problem? A skyscraper Park
Illustration of a cross section of a proposed multi storey garage/ car park, designed by Eugene G. Higgins. It was designed in the style of a tower and could hold seven hundred cars

Skyscraper Building
A man hangs precariously from a line during the construction of a skyscraper in New York

New York Times of 1904
The offices of the New York Times, built in 1904

Manhattan 1960S
East Side, Manhattan

NY from a Skyscraper
Building workers wave to the city below them

New York / Woolworth Bldg
A New York skyscraper: Woolworth Building by night

New York / Woolworth Bldg
New York: the Woolworth Building, at that time the worlds tallest building

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