Building New York Sky Scrapers
1902 and 1904 Detroit Photographic Co. (This was postmarked in 1907)
(undivided back postcard)
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Any wedge-shaped building is given the name "Flatiron" because of its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.
Note the date above is 1904, and unfinished, yet here is a card from 1903 ....
Flat-Iron Building New York
1903 Detroit Photographic Co.
(undivided back postcard)
Be sure to take note of the trolleys and horse and buggies too.
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New York City
The Flatiron Building built in 1902 is considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built. The building sits on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway.
The ad in the back of this postcard is for the Instinct phone from Sprint, and that came out in 2008.
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