Through these old NYC photos, we can see a growing city with buildings reaching for the sky and new bridges and tunnels
crossing the rivers. Catapulted by the mass production of the automobile, a twentieth century industrial revolution had begun.
Many of these photos emphasize the new buildings that were emerging all over midtown and downtown Manhattan. Inspired by designs
of the popular art deco movement, these buildings cast a new look that would forever to change the skyline of Manhattan.
Our photographer Joseph H. Sachs (1901-2000) draws us into this time period with photos that entice us to become not just an
observer, but also a participant, with a feeling that you are almost living the times of the early years of the twentieth
century in New York.
