New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 by Teresa Carpenter
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Custom House statue: in rear of N.Y. Produce Exchange Building. July 23, 1936
NYPL Notes: Two statues in front of the Customs House, looking toward State Streetand a large building with several levels of arched windows beyond. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Union Square, 14th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. July 16, 1936
NYPL Notes: Men and women hurry past newstand outside uptown subway entrance, street beyond is lined with businesses topped with large billboards. Men and women hurry past newstand outside uptown subway entrance, street beyond is lined with businesses topped with large billboards. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Broad Street looking toward Wall Street, Manhattan. July 16, 1936
NYPL Notes: Buildings lining Broad Street, including [S]chwartz’s restaurant, left foreground, and a building with scaffolding. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Grand Opera House, northwest corner, West 23rd Street and Eighth. August 12, 1936
NYPL Notes: Looking up over entrance of opera house, statues representing drama and music, bas-reliefs of Shakespeare and another; sculpture on roofline. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Doorway – Tredwell House (Old Merchant’s House) July 16, 1936.
NYPL Notes Facade of Federal Style house has shuttered windows, ionic columns and ornated woodwork in doorway, sign of admission, decorative iron railings. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Facade, 14 West 12th Street, Manhattan. July 16, 1936.
NYPL Notes: Ironwork balcony on Church House of the First Presbyterian Church. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Herald Square, 34th and Broadway, Manhattan. July 16, 1936.
NYPL Notes: Looking down on Herald Square, Broadway continues beyond, Macy’s, billboards on corner, left, elevated railroad and square, right. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan. 1935-1938.
NYPL Notes: Massive steel uprights in the center and to the left, with lighter steel tracery and windows above; men stand near stairway to trains. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Washington Square North, nos. 121-125, Manhattan. 1935-1938,
NYPL Notes: Row of brick houses, all with pairs of columns at door, ones at ends have awnings; house for rent is shuttered; Jaguar car partially visible Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
Hanover Square, Manhattan. May 25, 1936.
Elevated railroad station in Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan, cars below. Source: Changing New York.: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Photographs from this series taken by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Projects Administration. Available at NYPL. · Changing New York, 1935-1938.
