New York World Building
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The New York World Building was a building in the Civic Center of Manhattan in New York City, United States, along Park Row between Frankfort Street and the Brooklyn Bridge. Part of Lower Manhattan's
Circa 1909
Newspaper Row, circa 1900, World Building on left
View from atop the dome
Seen around 1905
Joseph Pulitzer
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Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American politician and a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the U.S. Democratic Party an
New York World Building
…rented to tenants. The World Building's design generally received mixed reviews, with criticism focusing mostly on its immense scale. The World's owner Joseph Pulitzer started planning for a new World headquarters in the late 1880s, and he hired Post following an architectural design competition. Construction took…
Pulitzer, c. 1900
A chromolithograph of Pulitzer superimposed on a composite of his newspapers.
"Liberty Enlightening the World, or The Statue of Liberty," a stained glass window commissioned by Pulitzer to commemorate the New York World's fundraising for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Originally installed in the New York World Building, it was moved to Pulitzer Hall at Columbia University.
An 1898 editorial cartoon by Leon Barritt depicts Pulitzer and Hearst each pushing for war with Spain.