An aerial view of the Rockefeller Plaza Outdoor Skating Pond with a few skaters on the ice, diners at tables to the left, the Prometheus sculpture by Paul Manship to the left of the diners, a very large group all around the rink observing from the lower plaza above the rink, and vehicles on the street on the right side of the photograph. Flags of many countries including the United States of America are on the lower plaza surrounding the rink.
December 1953
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Stamped on back, "FROM: ROCKEFELLER CENTER, INC. 50 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK. CIRCLE 5-9000. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. PHOTO BY EDWARD RATCLIFFE."