"Power." Power house, Harlem River, 201st Street.
This gigantic figure over the entrance of the R.C.A. building in Rockefeller Center, seems to hold on his shoulders the immense pile of stone and steel mounting to the sky.
"Grant's Tomb." Riverside Drive, 123rd Street. Cornerstone laid in 1892. Contains the bodies of Gen. Grant and his wife.
Liberty enlightening the world. Statue is 49 years old.
Relics of old New York. At Battery Place. Homes of Greeks and Syrians.
"From the Paramount Building." 43rd Street - Broadway. Looking northeast from 45th to 60th streets. Radio City not erected.
Joan of Arc, at the height of her glory leading her troops in the siege of Orleans. Riverside Drive at 93rd Street.
Fashionable Park Avenue, north from 46th Street. Street of fabulous wealth and tall apartment hotels.
The Cuxa Cloister by moonlight. Built in the XII Century. Was the monastery of St. Michael, Spain.
The beauty of modern setback architecture is strikingly shown in this photograph of the Squibb & N.Y. Trust Co. buildings at 57th Street and 5th Avenue.
The world famed skyline from an ocean liner.
City Hall built in 1803. A fine example of colonial architecture.
Fountain in the sunken plaza at Rockefeller Center. The huge figure symbolizes "Prometheus" the Greek God who stole fire from Heaven for man.
Jewish cemetery at Bowery near Chatham Square. First Jewish cemetery in the U.S. 1656.
"New York City Museum." 103rd Street - 5th Avenue. Contains records of the growth, past history, customs and exhibits of the city.
Bridge of Sighs. Tombs Prison. Centre Street.
"Cornell Medical Center." York Avenue, 68th Street.
Skyscrapers from Staten Island Ferry.
The Actor's Church. 29th Street - near 5th Avenue. Known as the "Little Church Around the Corner." Church of the Transfiguration.
Washington Arch. 5th Avenue - 8th Street. Where 5th Avenue begins at 8th Street. Completed in 1893.
From the 41st floor of a skyscraper at 41st Street and Madison Avenue. Looking south. Statue of Liberty in distance.
Former home of John James Audobon, the great naturalist. Audobon lived here about 1850. Stood on Riverside Drive 155th Street. Demolished in 1933.
The American Shipper unloading its cargo near the Battery.
In the heart of the millinery retail district - 39th Street and 6th Avenue.
And so with this view - we bid good-bye to the world's greatest city.
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