Details
Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree with icicle decorations and lights stands on the lower plaza and looms above the skating pond and the Prometheus sculpture created by Paul Manship. Wreaths hang on either side of the tree on the RCA building behind the tree and garland strands each roof line. Local workers stand about the tree on the lower plaza and on the ice skating pond.
Date Published
1953-12
Publisher
Edward Ratcliffe
Time Periods
Subjects, Geographic
Notes
December 1953
Typewritten note attached to back, "New York, N.Y.: Six thousand, five hundred shimmering icicles drench Rockefeller Center's 1953 Christmas tree in wintery splendor. The tree, a Norway spruce, is 75-feet high and weight about six tons. At night 6,500 sparkling firefly lights and 26 giant red and green floodlights bathe the tree in glowing holiday colors." Stamped on back, "FROM: ROCKEFELLER CENTER, INC. 50 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK. CIRCLE 5-9000. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. PHOTO BY EDWARD RATCLIFFE."
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Extent Of Original
1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 26 cm
Member of
Source File
umkc_lsc_malone_photos-383.tif
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
Rights
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