Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree with icicle decorations

Description
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.
Note
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."
Contributors
Photographer: Ratcliffe, Edward
Date Issued
1953-12
Type
Image
Extent
1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 26 cm
Genre
Gelatin silver prints
Member of
Ted Malone Collection
Publisher
Edward Ratcliffe
Time Period
1951-1960
Subject (Name)
Rockefeller Center
Subject (Topical)
Christmas trees
Christmas decorations
Norway spruce
Sculpture
Subject (Geographic)
New York (N.Y.)
Rights
Copyright Not Evaluated
Rights Note
Items in this collection may be freely viewed, searched, and displayed for research and educational purposes. Permission is required for publication, distribution, or other uses beyond viewing and searching, whether in print or electronic formats.
To request permission, please email LaBudde Special Collections.
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Collection Identifier: MS-0187
Source
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Unit
LaBudde Special Collections
Related Finding Aid
Ted Malone Collection