1929

Manhattan: Broadway - 36th Street

Broadway, east side, south from 36th Street. In the foreground may be seen the nearly-completed Herald Square Building, for the construction of which the old Seventy-First Regiment Armory has been cut in half. August 18, 1929. P. L. Sperr. The same, seven months later. The Herald Square Building is now completed. The flags are at half-staff because of the recent death of Chief Justice and former President William Howard Taft. Mr. Taft was succeeded by Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice. March 10, 1930. P. L. Sperr. The Herald Square Building site before erection. February 3, 1929. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection