Antique & Vintage Postcards

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.