Description: This linen-era card shows the New York City skyline as viewed from Governor\'s Island, highlighting the financial district\'s skyscrapers rising above the harbor waterfront. Ferries are visible along the waterfront, and trees frame the foreground of the view. The caption identifies the scene as the \"Financial Center of the World,\" reflecting the prominence of lower Manhattan\'s iconic skyline in the early 1940s.
Publisher: Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, Mass. Card No. 4228 (series no. 23 on front); copyright Irving Underhill.
Posted: Posted January 8, 1941, with a New York Grand Central Station postmark. Sent to Mrs. G. Stickely, Crescent Store, Spokane, Washington (also noted: Old S. Millinery). The handwritten message, written sideways, is partially legible and appears to be from a visitor in New York sharing impressions of the city.
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