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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(BUILDINGS AND LOTS) A selection of approximately 300 New York City architectural site surveys and real estate photographs. 1941-78. The mid-20th century witnessed a transformative building boom in New York City post World War II. Driven by demand for new infrastructure and more housing, this period reshaped the city's skyline. These photographs capture not only this architectural renaissance but also a vibrant slice of New York life. Though originally created for real estate builders, they inadvertently preserve the city's true essence. At street level, beneath towering structures, commuters walk and bike to work, children play in vacant lots, and workers load packages onto trucks. With careful observation, this collection transcends mere architectural documentation to capture the beauty in New York's everyday moments, revealing the people that give this incredible city its pulse. A few of the locations depicted include; Gimbels Department Store, Greeley Square, Queensbridge Park, Brownsville, among many others across the NYC boroughs.
Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 7½x9 inches (19.1x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with about a third of the photographs affixed in binders, many with locations noted in the negative or typed in the margins, some with site survey notations in ink in the image, and most with various photography, real estate, company, Bureau of Sewage Disposal, and Board of Standards and Appeals stamps and/or notations in pencil and ink, on verso.
