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Check out the Hugh Ferriss from the Avery Collection photo set (example above) and a long article about Feriss’ lasting impression on Gotham, Hugh Ferriss: Delineator of Gotham:

Picked up a reprinting of a 1929 book by Hugh Ferriss titled The Metropolis of Tomorrow. Ferriss was the preeminent architectural draftsman of his time who through his moody chiaroscuro renderings of skyscrapers virtually inventing the image of Gotham visitors came to the city to see and residents identified with so fondly.