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Aerial view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan in the summer of 1947. The Empire State and Chrysler buildings are at left. Waldorf-Astoria hotel and General Electric Building are at center and Rockefeller Center buildings are at right.

Photo: Pan American Airlines.

The Rockefeller Center. Fifth to Sixth avenues between West 48th to 51st Streets. The Associated Architects (Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux; Edward Durrell Stone). 1931-1940. Carson & Lundin (Esso Building), 1947.

View looking northwest of Rockefeller Center complex, from the top of 444 Madison Avenue Building, in Summer, 1948.

The 70-story R.C.A. Building are at center. 41-story International Building are at right with the new 32-story Esso Building (Carson & Lundin, 1947) can be seen at background.

Photo: Rockefeller Center, Inc.

View looking west of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers from the top of General Electric Building, in summer, 1950.

The 444 Madison Avenue Building (Kohn, Vitola & Knight, 1931) are at left, foreground. The Rockefeller Center’s original complex (Associated Architects, 1931-1940) are at background, with the 70-story R.C.A. Building (1933) at left and 41-story International Building (1935) at center. St. Patrick’s Cathedral are at foreground. The new 24-story Look Magazine (488 Madison Avenue) Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1950) are at foreground, right, and the new Rockefeller Center’s Esso Building (Carson & Lundin, 1947) are at background.

The 32-story Esso Building at Rockefeller Center. 75 Rockefeller Plaza, between 51st to 52nd streets. Carson & Lundin, 1946-1947.

The new Rockefeller Center’s Esso Building under construction. View looking southeast from 52nd Street. Early 1947. The Center’s International Building (Associated Architects, 1935) are visible at background, right.

Photo: Bethlehem Steel Co. 

View looking northeast of Midtown Manhattan skyline from Weehawken, New Jersey, in 1954. The Rockefeller Center complex are at right.

Photo: Robert S. Sisson

ROCKEFELLER CENTER EVOLUTION

Aerial view of Rockefeller Center buildings looking southwest showing the RCA Building (Associated Architects, 1933) at center and the new 48-story Time & Life Building (Harrison & Abramovitz) at right. Summer 1960.

Photo: Thomas Airviews.

Excavation works for new 42-story Equitable Life Assurance Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961), at 1285 Avenue of the Americas. New Rockefeller Center’s Time & Life Building (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1959), under construction, are visible on the right. Old Rockefeller Center buildings appears on background. Spring 1959.

Photo: Dmitri Kessel