Archive for December, 2011

Whelan’s Drug Store, 44th Street and Eighth Avenue, Manhattan. February 10, 1936.

NYPL Notes: Man waits on customer in background, displays of electrical appliances, clocks, and a Valentine’s Day display of candy. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

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Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott  for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.

BBC

Here’s the BBC segment on NYD. A first-rate job of photo research and editing!

Videographer David Botti, totes a backpack that might crush a Marine.  Fortunately, he was a Marine.