Photographs of New York

 Photographs of New York 1935-1938 by photographer Berenice Abbott.

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Great Depression

A job-seeker adopts the same strategy in New York during the Great Depression

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Depression Era

New York - January 1938. "Unemployed Workers."  - Depression Era 

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Tap Dance Trio

Publicity portrait of unidentified tap dance trio.    

Source:   digitalgallery.nypl  |   Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/ Photographs and Prints Division  |   The New York Public Library

Vintage Photo

The Cotton Club in Harlem, New York, 1923 to 1940,  Harlem Renaissance,  James Van Der Zee, Photographer 

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt with Fala and Ruthie Bie in Hyde Park, New York, 1941 One of the few photographs of Roosevelt in his wheelchair. 
Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted infantile paralysis, more commonly known as polio, in 1921 when he was thirty-nine years old. After several years of rehabilitation, he returned to politics. Concerned his disability would be used against him in the political arena, Roosevelt was reluctant to be photographed or filmed in situations that highlighted his disability.

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Vintage Photo

May 1, 1937, New York. Grocery at 1028 Third Avenue and 61st Street with Salvatore Campanelli far right. John J. Campanelli Collection. View full size

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Roy Eldridge

Roy Eldridge, (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz",  Spotlite (Club), NewYork, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946 - Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer. 

Source: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). | Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt, her father, Elliot, and her brothers, Elliot, Jr and Gracie Hall in New York, c. 1892

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. c. 1898

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Vintage Photo

What’s known as the “Great Migration,” the mass movement of African Americans from the south to northern cities, saw 200,000 African Americans claiming New York–specifically Harlem–as their new place of residence. As a result, Harlem became a cultural hub for dynamic jazz and blues as well as a platform for rising jazz artists.

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Vintage Photo

The end of World War 1 welcomed a new era in New York – one in which jazz, illegal booze, gangs, commerce and culture flourished. By the 1920s, New York boasted nearly 6 million residents and served as a booming center for immigrants and migrants entering the city through road, rail and boats.

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Vintage Photo

Beret-clad African American girls minding babies in carriages in Harlem. Photograph by Dorien Leigh. New York City, 1934.

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Vintage Photo

Annual report of the New York Zoological Society (1897) giant tortoise. vintage

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Marie Daly

Marie Maynard Daly, born in Queens, New York to Helen and Ivan Daly, was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry.

(1921-2003)

Source: blackpast | Ray Spangenburg and Kit Moser. “Roger Arliner Young,” in African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention (New York: Facts on File, 2003); James H. Kessler. “Marie Maynard Daly,” in Distinguished African American Scientists of the Twentieth Century (Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1996); https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/daly.html

Eartha Kitt

Eartha Kitt riding her bicycle down the street. New York, 1952.
By Gordon Parks c.1950

Eartha Mae Kitt  (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star.

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Veronica Lake

  Veronica Lake was born in Brooklyn, New York with the birth name of Constance Frances Marie Ockelman. (November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film actress and pin-up model. c. 1940s

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Vintage Photo

Chrysler-Building-as-seen-from-42nd-St-looking-west-from-2nd-Avenue.a.-1935-1941

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Vintage Photo

Two ballerinas gazing out of studio window in rehearsal room at George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. New York, 1936.

 By Alfred Eisenstaed

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Ruth Bayton

Ruth Bayton was an African American performer who became popular in Europe in the 1920's. She was born in White Stone, Virginia in 1903 and lived in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York before leaving for the Continent. - Source: flickr.