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Found Photos Show One Person's View Of 1930s NYC
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Jen Carlson
Published Apr 4, 2012
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Ever pick up an old bunch of 35mm negatives at a flea market and get them developed? That's what this person did, and they found a treasure trove of old NYC photos from the 1930s. They write, "Every vintage '30s photo is a gorgeous delight, and, after looking at the first couple of scanned images, it was quite obvious that the photographer knew what he/she was doing. There are some great portraits, people working in an office, some great shots of NYC, and, even better, a big group of shots of the New York World's Fair (the most spectacular of them all, in my opinion)."
Click through for a sampling, and you can check out the rest right here (it's unclear where all of them were taken, so maybe you can help out). For more 1930s NYC action, check out our archives.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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