A picture of an illustration of the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York as seen from the south looking north. On the viewer's left are the state office towers, designed by Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz. On the viewer's right is the Corning Tower (also a state office building and designed by Harrison and Abramovitz), named after the Albany mayor Erastus Corning II. In the background is the New York State Capitol building (1867-99), designed in part by Henry Hobson Richardson. There are crop marks on all sides of the photograph and in the left margin is an uppercase letter G.

Date created

• Undated

Type

• Image

Creator

• University at Albany

Master Format

• TIF

Identifier

• nam_ua_390_pm_000817

Subject

• Pools
• Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886
• Paintings
• Empire State Plaza (Albany, N.Y.)
• New York State Capitol (Albany, N.Y.)
• Crop marks
• Albany (N.Y.)
• University Archives Photographs
• Towers
• Abramovitz, Max, 1908-
• Harrison, Wallace K. (Wallace Kirkman), 1895-

License

• Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0

  

ITEM CONTEXT

Collection

University Photograph Collection

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the University Archives