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Photo, Print, Drawing [Empire State Building, New York City, at night, with new beacons turned on]

[ digital file from original photograph ]

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About this Item

Title

  • [Empire State Building, New York City, at night, with new beacons turned on]

Summary

  • Photograph shows a test of powerful new beacon lights on the Empire State Building in New York City.

Created / Published

  • [New York] : [New York World-Telegram & Sun], 4/11/56 [11 April 1956]

Headings

  • -  Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.)--1950-1960
  • -  Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York--1950-1960
  • -  Beacons--New York (State)--New York--1950-1960
  • -  Lighting--New York (State)--New York--1950-1960

Headings

  • Night photographs--1950-1960.
  • Photographic prints--1950-1960.

Genre

  • Night photographs--1950-1960
  • Photographic prints--1950-1960

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  News agency caption: Guiding Lights. New York: Powerful light beams knife into the night from the Empire State Building in New York as newly installed beacons are turned on for a test. The four rotating beacons, five feet in diameter, give a combined total of nearly two billion candle power of light. The beacons, expected to be visible to aircraft 300 miles away on clear nights, are intended as rays of welcome to air travelers. Ground observers should see the beacons as far as 80 miles distant.
  • -  Date from news agency caption.
  • -  United Press International telephoto.
  • -  No. NXP 0411102.
  • -  Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Medium

  • 1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in. format)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • NYWTS - SUBJ/GEOG--Buildings--New York City--Empire State Building--Lights [item] [P&P]

Source Collection

  • New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Repository

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 56251 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.56251

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019632903

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-56251 (digital file from original photograph)

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "New York World-Telegram & ...," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-56251 (digital file from original photograph)
  • Call Number: NYWTS - SUBJ/GEOG--Buildings--New York City--Empire State Building--Lights [item] [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Empire State Building, New York City, at night, with new beacons turned on. New York, 1956. [New York: New York World-Telegram & Sun, 4/11/56 11 April] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019632903/.

APA citation style:

(1956) Empire State Building, New York City, at night, with new beacons turned on. New York, 1956. [New York: New York World-Telegram & Sun, 4/11/56 11 April] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019632903/.

MLA citation style:

Empire State Building, New York City, at night, with new beacons turned on. [New York: New York World-Telegram & Sun, 4/11/56 11 April] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019632903/>.