Even by today’s standards, these skyscrapers seem impossibly tall, but juxtaposed with the waterfront crowds and Colonial-style tallship, this photo becomes difficult for me to process as real and undoctored. 
Berenice Abbot, Theoline, Pier 11 or 12, East River, Manhattan. (April 09, 1936)

Even by today’s standards, these skyscrapers seem impossibly tall, but juxtaposed with the waterfront crowds and Colonial-style tallship, this photo becomes difficult for me to process as real and undoctored. 

Berenice Abbot, Theoline, Pier 11 or 12, East River, Manhattan. (April 09, 1936)

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