Souvenir Viewbook of New York City, circa 1930
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What's better than receiving a postcard from a vacationing friend? How about a souvenir viewbook with multiple images that fold neatly into a postcard-sized packet? This viewbook contains twenty color views and information about New York City. This souvenir includes images of museums, monuments, government buildings, steamships, parks, and out-of-the-way neighborhoods found in America's largest metropolis around 1930.
What's better than receiving a postcard from a vacationing friend? How about a souvenir viewbook with multiple images that fold neatly into a postcard-sized packet? This viewbook contains twenty color views and information about New York City. This souvenir includes images of museums, monuments, government buildings, steamships, parks, and out-of-the-way neighborhoods found in America's largest metropolis around 1930.
Artifact
Viewbook
Date Made
circa 1930
Subject Date
circa 1930
Keywords
United States, New York, New York
United States, New York, Ellis Island
United States, New York, New York, Times Square
United States, New York, New York, Brooklyn Bridge
Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)
American Museum of Natural History
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
88.18.22
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Folding (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 4.25 in
Width: 6.25 in
Inscriptions
at top: Souvenir Folder of NEW YORK / The Gateway of [...] handwritten on address: Miss Alice Mae Ziemer / New London / Wisconsin / Route 1
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