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More from Ptak Science Books: Fantastic Cover Art: a Picture of the Future of Television:

This image is that of the television antenna of station WNBT and for many years it sat on top of the Empire State Building. WNBT was the flagship station of NBC, which was owned by RCA (Radio Corporation of America, 1919-1986) which (according to its name) was really the first national broadcasting radio network in the United States, and which (as experimental station W2XBS) became the first to broadcast a television picture (of a papier mache Felix the Cat) in 1928. This fantastic cover art for a 1947 promotional for the company pictured the famous antenna, the great visual of the company’s external hardware, right there on top of the world’s tallest building.

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burnedshoes:

© Lewis Wickes Hine, ca. 1931, Empire State Building, New York

“You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are supposed to look like ants, but that’s not true. They look like little people. And the cars look like little cars. And even the buildings look little. It’s like New York is a miniature replica of New York, which is nice, because you can see what it’s really like, instead of how it feels when you’re in the middle of it.” (Jonathan Safran Foer)

liquidnight:

Elliott Erwitt

New York City, 1955

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life:

Some view, huh? — The 102-story Art Deco tower in Midtown Manhattan known as the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world from its completion on May 1, 1931, until the World Trade Center eclipsed it in 1972. It was the product of the labor of 3,400 men.

Empire State Building: Built by Hand

liquidnight:

Lewis W. Hine

Empire State Building

New York, 1930s, Gelatin silver print

[From the Metropolitan Museum of Art]