Manhattan spreads in breathtaking sepia panorama from the newly opened Empire State Building's observatory deck — the Chrysler Building's gleaming art deco spire piercing the right-center skyline, the East River curving beyond, and Central Park's green rectangle visible in the far distance — in this rare real-photo postcard taken just months after the world's tallest building opened in May 1931. Published by the Unusual Photographs Reproduction Company at 19 Park Place, New York City, and printed in Germany, this "genuine photograph" card captures Midtown Manhattan at one of its most transformative moments, when the skyline was being reinvented in real time. The back confirms the Empire State was then marketed as "Tallest in the World — 1,250 Feet High" at Fifth Avenue & 34th Street, a boast it would hold unchallenged until 1970.