Description: Street-level view of the New York General Post Office building spanning 31st to 33rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenue in Manhattan. The massive Beaux-Arts structure features a long colonnade of Corinthian columns along its facade, with period automobiles visible on the street. The back notes the building served Manhattan and the Bronx, connected 28 miles of pneumatic tubes to branch post offices, and handled nearly 3 billion letters per year with cash receipts of $69,000,000 annually.
Publisher: Published for H. W. Haberman, New York; Lumitone Photoprint, New York.