We can add these to the Old NY thread after everybodys had a look. There are about 20 images or so...
I didn't want to bog down the other thread...
it's already packed!

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/south_ferry.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/chrysler_300dpi.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/orchard_street.jpg

little rascals
http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/playing_water.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/coney_island.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/hinterhof1.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/chrysler_300dpi_1.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/skyline_von_ellis_island_aus.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/third_ave.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/subway001.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/hinterhof2.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/battery_park.jpg

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/street2.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/street1.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/central_park.JPG

http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/third_ave_2.jpg

I'm rich biitch!
http://www.ralfackerknecht.de/new_york_historisch/people001.JPG

AMAZING pics, thanx for posting!

Oh man! That second picture with the Chrysler building u/c is so rare, never seen anything like that!

Really great photos, very interesting! Thanks a lot.

Yes indeed! I have saved the most of them onto my hard disk :) Thanks for sharing!

My pleasure! I'm glad I found them :okay:

I was pretty sure that Chrysler shot would be popular. It's a first for me too. :D

I like the Crhysler one, it's crazy the methods they used for building in the past.

New York at that time looked like an industrial fortress sort of like Lindblum in Final Fantasy IX. It looks very industrial and at the same time depressing! It sad though the street trolleys aren't running anymore!

Interesting that many of the shots look just the same way as they look toay.

That Chrysler pic is hot. I've never seen a construction shot of the building like that before.

awesome thread! i loooooooooooove old pics threads :) thanks for postin swivel!

anytime ;)

That Chrysler pic is hot. I've never seen a construction shot of the building like that before.

all construction photos of the chrysler in this book :

The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon Day by Day
Author : Stravitz, David ;
Edition : PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL

:)

all construction photos of the chrysler in this book :

The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon Day by Day
Author : Stravitz, David ;
Edition : PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL

:)

i have that book!

i would highly recommend you guys get this book,lots of pics from the very start of the chrysler buildings history.

apparently the person who wrote the book stumbled across the 150 10x8 silver photographic plates just before they were to be sold to a silver reclamation yard to be melted down! :eek2:

so he purchased them and kept the history of building the chrysler building alive!

i think this was the only documented photographic story of this building and it was saved.

lots of good info in this book as well.

theres also a cool picture of mr frank b rogers vice president of the w.p.c corp touching the tip of the chrysler buildings spire on completion of construction!

that must have been absolutely awesome up there!

also some rare cloud club pics,and walter chryslers tool box.