Aerial view showing lower Manhattan skyscrapers, including the Chase Manhattan Bank and The 40 Wall Street, with East River piers, the Brooklyn Bridge, and, in the background, Liberty Island and Ellis Island, New Jersey and New York, United States

People:

Marilyn Bridges (photographer)
Washington Augustus Roebling (engineer)
Harold Craig Severance (role unspecified)
John Augustus Roebling (engineer)
William Zeckendorf (role unspecified)
Yasuo Matsui (role unspecified)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (role unspecified)

Title:

Date:

May 1988

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 37.7 x 47.5 cm sheet: 40.3 x 50.6 cm

Reference number:

PH1993:0167

Point of View:

aerial view
exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The photograph is attached to the CCA mount with four paper corners and white woven tape.

Inscription:

inscribed, signed and dated - by the photographer, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: "(c) Marilyn Bridges 1988"

Location:

Ellis Island; New Jersey; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

river
city
bridge (built work)
islands
piers (marine landings)
skyscrapers

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de la Fondation Parnassus, avec l'aimable concours de Raphael et Jane Bernstein/
Gift of the Parnassus Foundation, courtesy of Raphael and Jane Bernstein

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