Cass Gilbert SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED Letter - Skyscraper Woolworth Building Architect

Description

Signed by architect Cass Gilbert letter on his professional letterhead, dated June 28th 1900. With recipient's markings detailing some highlights of Gilbert's career.
Recipient was Edmund Zalinski, born in Poland in 1849, emigrated to America in 1853, and joined the Union Army in 1864 as a teenager. He went on to a long career as a military engineer and inventor, most notably developing the pneumatic dynamite torpedo-gun (called the Zalinski gun). This letter comes from a large archive of material received by Zalinski around the time of the Spanish-American war which he then presented to Gertrude Whiting for her autograph collection. (He has has annotated this letter for her describing Gilbert's accomplishments.)