This poster predates the final completion of Rockefeller Center, built between 1931 and 1939. By 1936, the buildings depicted in the poster had already been constructed, yet Ragan’s view is not an entirely accurate rendering of the complex since it includes several buildings that were not ultimately realized. Ragan frequently relied on preexisting artwork when designing posters. Here, he was most likely inspired by a promotional postcard issued before the project was completed that featured similarly constructed towers flanking the central RCA Building (known today as 30 Rockefeller Plaza). In the center’s finished state, those structures are quite different; one is even oriented in the opposite direction. Also visible in the poster are seven roof gardens—only five were actually completed. The enormity of Rockefeller Center, shown here from a bird’s-eye view, is emphasized by its comparison to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the foreground and the Hudson River and New Jersey in the distance, as well as by the impressive shadow it casts over neighboring buildings. The Gothic spire of St. Nicholas Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church is depicted at the corner of 48th Street and Fifth Avenue at the lower left of the composition. It was razed in the summer of 1949 to make way for the Sinclair Building.