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170,000 Old Depression Era Photos Were Just Released
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Tenant at 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Tenant at 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Newsstand and subway, Eighth Avenue<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Hair tonic salesman advertising his wares, 7th Avenue at 38 Street<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
A picket on 7th Avenue<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Scene on 8th Avenue<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
A store window display in New York, New York, promoting the National Defense Aluminum Collection<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Sergeant Frank Hoffman is on a busman's holiday from his job as cook at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, buying sausage to cook for his girlfriend before he goes back to camp. Sergeant Hoffman is shopping in Anthony Weber's store in the German section of New York.<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Store at which Mrs. Hotchfield does her shopping. Washington Avenue, the Bronx<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Out of rear window tenement dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon, 133 Avenue D<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C.<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Brooklyn, New York. Red Hook housing development. Every group of buildings is surrounded by trees and grass with a courtyard where children can play<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Watching parade on Mott Street and flag raising ceremony in honor of boys from the neighborhood in the United States Army<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
Waiting for trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station<br/>
Photo courtesy of The Library Of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection/Yale University
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