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INDEX
Abbott, Berenice, 197–98
abstraction, 66, 141, 199, 261
of anonymous workers, 55–58, 135, 225
achievement, American, 27, 75–76, 131, 152, 162
Adams, George R., 8, 161, 182, 183, 186
Adams, John, 182
Adler, Felix, 72–73, 137–39, 142
administration, construction, 14–15, 17
“After All These Years” (Haenigsen), 155, 156
Albany, New York, 59
Albert A. Volk company, 85
alienation, 104
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers’ union, 80
America and Lewis Hine (documentary film), 214–15
“American Civilization” (Emerson), 142
American Heritage (magazine), 18
Americanized names, 84, 94–95, 127, 186, 189
The American Magazine, 74–75, 82, 207, 250, 266
“Americanness,” of the Empire State Building, 2–3, 9
American spirit, 3, 22, 27, 100, 225
American Women’s Association Building, 58
Andreasen, Peder Joachim, 20, 271–72
Andreasen, Sigus, 19
Andres, Charles E., 69
anonymous workers, Empire State Building unidentified and, 10–11, 13–15, 17–18, 22–24, 29, 31–32, 159, 275–78. See also identification, worker
abstraction of, 55–58, 135, 225
photographs of, 42, 43–45, 184, 190, 191, 192, 275
anti-prostitution measures, 71
architects, 17, 59, 101–2, 106–7, 110–11, 153, 253–54
The Architectural Forum (magazine), 101–2, 164–65, 173, 241
architecture, 2–5, 9, 38, 100–102
archives, 14–15, 17, 28–29, 152, 161, 248–50. See also specific archives
of Empire State Inc., 34–35, 47–48, 162–63
genealogical databases and, 20, 49–50, 61–62, 202, 211, 239–40, 269–70
New York Building Congress, 105, 114
Argonaut Insurance Company, 168
Army, US, 94, 168, 276
Art Education Today (periodical), 59
art history, 25, 66–67, 137, 199
artifacts, 11, 151, 153
artisanship, 107, 109
Arts and Crafts movement, 109
