Liberty and World Trade Center clearance leaning over the table

leaning over the table

000 miles a year making two or three speeches a week

which stand in the background

000 spectators gathered in Times Square outside The New York Times building to receive updates

the New York Times photographer who chronicled 10 presidents in a career that spanned almost a half century

Liberty and World Trade Center clearance leaning over the tableTimes staff photographer Fred R. Conrad took this picture of what were, at the time, two of New York's biggest attractions. To photograph the Statue of Liberty's torch between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Conrad found a vantage point on a dock near Caven Point, N. J. There, with a 300 millimeter lens in hand, he composed this image. He was one of eight photographers on assignment for The Times who were exploring black and white