34th Street looking east from Fifth Avenue, New York City, undated; copy negative after an original photograph by an unknown photographer.

Building, 34th St. & Fifth Ave.

Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 34th Street (1) Fifth Avenue, east side (buildings thereupon), at E. 34th Street (center intersection). The photographer is viewing northeastward across the Empire State Building site, from a point to the west of the Avenue on W. 33rd Street. Occupyin2 the 34th-35th Street frontage is B. Altman's department store. Across the roof of same appears the upper portion of the Combustion Engineering Building on Madison Avenue. In the loft background is the Lincoln Building. P. L. Sperr February 11, 1930 (2) Another view of the same intersection, taken at an earlier date. The farther building is the B. Altman & Co. department store; the buildings in the foreground are at he southeast corner of the intersectfon. This view is notable for the distinctness of the ornamentation around the Altmen building. The columns are in the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture. Wilberforce Eames Collection 1916

349 5th Avenue at the S.E. corner of 34th Street. Building.

\[Cripps store, Fifth Avenue and 34th Street.]

Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 34th Street (1) Fifth Avenue, east side (buildings thereupon), at E. 34th Street (center intersection). The photographer is viewing northeastward across the Empire State Building site, from a point to the west of the Avenue on W. 33rd Street. Occupyin2 the 34th-35th Street frontage is B. Altman's department store. Across the roof of same appears the upper portion of the Combustion Engineering Building on Madison Avenue. In the loft background is the Lincoln Building. P. L. Sperr February 11, 1930 (2) Another view of the same intersection, taken at an earlier date. The farther building is the B. Altman & Co. department store; the buildings in the foreground are at he southeast corner of the intersectfon. This view is notable for the distinctness of the ornamentation around the Altmen building. The columns are in the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture. Wilberforce Eames Collection 1916

34th Street and 5th Avenue, S.E. corner. Seven-story building.

Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 34th Street Fifth Ave., at the S.E. corner of East 34th Street. Note the Traffic Tower on Pifth Ave. About 1923. Gift of E. M. Jenks.