Author: F.W. Woolworth CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
40. anniversary souvenir, F.W. Woolworth Co. 1879-1919
Author: F.W. Woolworth CoFortieth Anniversary Souvenir, F. W. Woolworth Co
Author: F.W. Woolworth CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Fortieth Anniversary Souvenir, F.W. Woolworth Co
Author: Woolworth, F.W., co., New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Fortieth Anniversary Souvenir, F.W. Woolworth Co. Canada, 1879-1919
Author: F.W. Woolworth CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
F. W. Woolworth Co
Author: George A. NicholsThe Skyscraper and the City
Author: Gail FenskePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226241416
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Once the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Building is noted for its striking but incongruous synthesis of Beaux-Arts architecture, fanciful Gothic ornamentation, and audacious steel-framed engineering. Here, in the first history of this great urban landmark, Gail Fenske argues that its design serves as a compelling lens through which to view the distinctive urban culture of Progressive-era New York. Fenske shows here that the building’s multiplicity of meanings reflected the cultural contradictions that defined New York City’s modernity. For Frank Woolworth—founder of the famous five-and-dime store chain—the building served as a towering trademark, for advocates of the City Beautiful movement it suggested a majestic hotel de ville, for technological enthusiasts it represented the boldest of experiments in vertical construction, and for tenants it provided an evocative setting for high-style consumption. Tourists, meanwhile, experienced a spectacular sightseeing destination and avant-garde artists discovered a twentieth-century future. In emphasizing this faceted significance, Fenske illuminates the process of conceiving, financing, and constructing skyscrapers as well as the mass phenomena of consumerism, marketing, news media, and urban spectatorship that surround them. As the representative example of the skyscraper as a “cathedral of commerce,” the Woolworth Building remains a commanding presence in the skyline of lower Manhattan, and the generously illustrated Skyscraper and the City is a worthy testament to its importance in American culture.
National Union Catalog
Author: The National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Pamphlets in American History
Author: Henry BarnardPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Eightieth Anniversary Dinner of F.W. Woolworth Co. Commemorating the Founding of the S.H. Knox Co., Buffalo, New York, 1888
Author: F.W. Woolworth CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Department stores
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description