This view of Manhattan’s East River skyline is another great photograph by Samuel Gottscho.  This particular print was a personal gift from Gottscho to Dorothy C. Miller, the first curator of photography at the newly founded Museum of Modern Art with the inscription:  “I have never ceased to wonder at the marvel of photography as it freezes a split-second for eternity, the glorification of industry.” 

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"Edison Power House at 39th Street and East River" 

Samuel H. Gottscho, 1932
vintage gelatin silver print
10″ × 11.75″