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Postcard 1911 St Paul's Chapel Trinity Parish New York City Unused Vintage
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Pre-linen · 1911

Postcard 1911 St Paul's Chapel Trinity Parish New York City Unused Vintage

New York City, New York, USA1911Pre-linenExcellent

Draped in a lush mantle of climbing ivy, St. Paul's Chapel — Manhattan's oldest surviving church building, erected in 1766 and the place where George Washington worshipped after his first inauguration — presides with quiet Georgian authority over a teeming Broadway sidewalk, its gilt-topped spire rising against a burnt-orange and blue sky while the nascent skyscrapers of early twentieth-century lower Manhattan crowd in on all sides, a collision of centuries captured in a single frame. This unused color card, copyrighted 1911 by Irving Underhill and published by the American Art Publishing Co. of New York, belongs to the rich tradition of architectural postcards that documented Manhattan's dramatic vertical transformation. The reverse text notes that Trinity Parish's St. Paul's occupies "one of the most valuable blocks on Broadway" — a fact as true in 1911 as it is today. The card is clean and unused, with a 1-cent domestic / 2-cent foreign stamp box printed in blue.

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PC-00903 · The American Art Publishing Co., New York City
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