Flat Iron Building

This is a postcard of the famous Flat Iron Building in New York City. The card was never sent through the mail, the back is empty but in the writing area on the front it reads "Perhaps you may go to see this sometime." The Flat Iron Building was one of the first sky scrapers in New York.

The main reason I wanted to post this is because of the story of how it came to be in my possession. My first full day back from Phoenix I went to the Portland Museum of Art to see the American Moderns on Paper exhibit. One of the supporters of these artists during their careers was Alfred Stieglitz who was also a photographer and in fact made a well-known (though not as well-known as Edward Steichen's) photograph of the building. So when I returned home from the museum I was telling my Mom about this and brought up these two photgraphs of the building to show her. I had previously mentioned that I was interested in acquiring some old postcards to make shadow boxes from. A week or so later she went to a number of antique sales and happened across this postcard which she knew at once that I would like. And now here it is for you to see as well. As a photograph it isn't too impressive, but I do think the postcard content itself makes up for it.