The New 38-story Seagram Building. 350 Park Avenue, East Side Between 52nd And 53rd Streets. Ludwig Mies

The 102-story Empire State Building. 350 Fifth Avenue, west side between 33rd to 34th streets. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1929-1931.

View looking southwest of the Empire State Building, during its construction, from Chrysler Building’s obsevation room. Summer, 1930.

Photo: George Eastman House.

Source: National Geographic Magazine. February, 1989.

The Empire State Building and Twin Towers of World Trade Center juxtaposition in this afternoon aerial view looking south. Late 1978.

Photo: Stephen Proehl.

Source: Stephen Proehl. “Over New York”. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.

Glass facades on 46th. Strreet between Park (left) and Third Avenue (right), Summer 1967.

Buildings from left to right are the 51-story 245 Park Avenue (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1967), 30-story 485 Lexington Avenue (Emery Roth & Sons, 1956) and 34-story 750 Third Avenue (Emery Roth & Sons, 1958).

Photo: Unknown.

Source: MIchele Salvati/Varios Autores. “El Acero en la Construcción Moderna. Buenos Aires, Ed. Víctor Lerú, 1976.

The fully illuminated architectural model of the 59-story Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) to be inserted by photomontage in a night view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan’s Grand Central district, in early, 1961. The Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960) and the Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) are at left.

Foto: Pan American World Airways.

Fuente: Nester’s Map and Guide Corp.

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