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RPPC New York City RCA Building Statue Liberty Empire State 1940s
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RPPC · 1945

RPPC New York City RCA Building Statue Liberty Empire State 1940s

New York City, New York1945RPPCGood

Real photo postcard triptych of three New York City landmarks in black and white — the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center at left with its stepped Art Deco crown and midtown roofscape falling away below, the Statue of Liberty centered against a pale sky, and the Empire State Building at right with lower Manhattan spreading behind it. The three subjects together represent a particular moment in New York's self-image: the RCA Building opened in 1933, the Empire State in 1931, and the Statue of Liberty had stood since 1886 — by the 1940s all three had become shorthand for the city itself, the images most likely to be mailed home by a visitor trying to capture the whole of it at once.

  • Caption: "R.C.A. Bldg. — Statue of Liberty — Empire State Bldg. — New York, N.Y." (card no. 4)
  • Publisher: Foto Seal Co., New York, N.Y.
  • Status: Unposted
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PC-03723 · Foto Seal Co., New York, N.Y.
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