The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931.
Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.)
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Salmon album 3
Date: [August to October 1947, June 1958 and June 1959
From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints
By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999
Reference: PA1-q-199
Description: Album in two sequences. The first 12 pages are contacts from 35mm film relating to a John Tenison Salmon's Carnegie Travelling Fellowship in 1958-1959; the second sequence (pages 13-41) contains prints relating to his trip to Australia to attend the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress held in 1947. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with cream cover, Cobra ring binder; 30 x 24 cm
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D H Blackie Ltd.: Manhattan frocks [Show card. ca 1945]
Date: 1939 - 1945
By: D H Blackie Ltd
Reference: Eph-C-COSTUME-1945-01
Description: Display card with cardboard stand on verso shows a woman in a tailored knee-length dress and white gloves, holding a Dalmatian dog on a lead, and posing in front of central Manhattan skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building. Words printed on the verso: "This card is loaned for display purposes by courtesy of the makers of Manhattan coats and frocks, D H Blackie Ltd., Dunedin". Date estimated from the style of the dress shown. "Manhattan" frocks were being advertised in New Zealand newspaper from as early as 1939 see "Press" (Christchurch), 31 January 1939, page 4. However the company was listed in trade directories until at least 1965. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on heavy card, 517 x 384 mm.