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Tag Archives: New York City
1950: Atom Bomb Hits New York City
Chesley Bonestell: Atom Bomb Hits New York City; cover illustration for the August 5, 1950 issue of Collier’s magazine.
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1940s: Panorama
Multi-photo panorama of West Street from Rector Street to Morris Street, New York City (1940’s) Click for detail!
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1939: City of Light
City of Light diorama, 1939 New York City World’s Fair
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1970: Bookstore
Jack Garofalo: Bookstore, Harlem, 1970
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Art, Books, Bookstores, France, Isaac Hayes, Jack Garofalo, Malcolm X, New York City, Photography
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1927: Second Base
Charles M. Conlon: portrait of second baseman Tony Lazzeri of the 1927 Yankees
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1910: Broadway at Night
Alvin Langdon Coburn: Broadway at Night (c. 1910)
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1946: Django
William Gottlieb: Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, NY (ca. Nov. 1946)
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1964: World’s Largest Miniature City
Built for the 1964 World’s Fair at a cost of $672,000 (about $5.3 million in 2017), the Panorama of New York City at the Queens Museum is the world’s largest architectural model of a city. It includes about 895,000 miniature … Continue reading
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1947: Mister
William Gottlieb: Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, NY (ca. Feb. 1947) (source)
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1999: Under the Gowanus
Rackstraw Downes: Under the Gowanus with Sanitation Department Towers (1999) Gowanus is a neighborhood in Brooklyn. “The Gowanus Expressway, which serves as the southern extension of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, also connects the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel approach, the Prospect Expressway (NY 27), … Continue reading
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