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VINTAGE MANHATTAN SKYLINE

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Evolution of Manhattan skyscrapers and urban landscape during 20th Century. Curated by Erick Christian Alvarez Soto from his own books and postcards collection. An amateur history of New York skyscrapers from Mexico City.

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The 39-story aluminum and glass Tishman Building. 666 Fifth Avenue, west block between 52nd to 53rd streets. Carson & Lundin, 1956-1957.

View looking north of Tishman Building from 52nd Street. Spring, 1958.

Photo: Alexandre George

Source: Progressive Architecture. September, 1958

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The 32-story Esso Building (Carson & Lundin, 1947) at Rockefeller Center. View looking southeast from Avenue of Americas and 52nd Street in Summer of 1955.

Photo: Rockefeller Center, Inc.

Source: Samuel Chamberlain "Rockefeller Center. A photographic narrative" (New York. Hastings House. 1959).

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