What Manhattan looked like in the 1940s: A Photographic Tour of the Streets, Landmarks and Everyday Life

#1 Skyline of Midtown Manhattan from Radio City (Rockefeller Center), New York City, 1941

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#2 Elevated train structure and buildings — Lower Manhattan, New York City, 1941

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#3 Manhattan Savings Bank and Third Avenue elevated tracks, New York City, 1947. The bank, completed in 1924, stands at the corner of Bowery and Canal on the Lower East Side.

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#4 Street vagrant pushcart, Manhattan Hobo, New York City, 1942

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#5 Lower Manhattan, S.S. Coamo, 1941

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#6 The Third Avenue el winds its way through lower Manhattan, February 12, 1946.

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#7 The Empire State Building is seen at right in this aerial view of buildings in Manhattan’s Garment District on Seventh Avenue on Dec. 9, 1947.

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#8 A pretzel vendor displays his wares on an approach to the Manhattan Bridge in New York City, April 29, 1948.

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#9 Skaters glide on the ice at the center’s skating rink in midtown Manhattan, New York, Dec. 8, 1949.

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#10 General View of the March on Washington Movement’s Mass Meeting in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, 1943

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#11 Marquees of Apollo and Times Square Theaters in Midtown, Manhattan, Circa 1941

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#12 Night Views of Times Square, Manhattan, Circa 1946

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#13 View Looking North Up Mott Street in Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, Circa 1943

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#14 Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division Marching in Victory Parade Through Washington Square Arch, Manhattan, 1945

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#15 People Walking Past Billboards on a Street in East Harlem, Manhattan, 1947

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#16 Cars Abandoned Outside the Hampshire House Hotel During the Great Blizzard, Manhattan, 1947

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#17 Pedestrians Crossing at 5th Avenue and West 42nd Street, Manhattan, August 1940

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#18 View Looking East Down Pell Street in Chinatown, Manhattan, Circa 1943

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#19 Manufacturers Delivering Goods by Hand Carts Due to Shipping, Trucking & Tugging Strikes, Manhattan, 1946

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#20 View of 42nd Street at Park Avenue, Two Days After Pearl Harbor Attacks, Manhattan, 1941

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#21 Approach to the George Washington Bridge Completely Snowed Under, Manhattan, 1948

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#22 Park Avenue Looking Like Any Other Street in Gas-Rationed City, Manhattan, 1947

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#23 Man Feeding Pigeons in Times Square, Manhattan, 1946

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#24 Long Line of Voters Outside Polling Place at 112th Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, November 1948

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#25 View of the Manhattan Bridge Looking East, Manhattan, 1948

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#26 Bryant Park Looking Toward Public Library, Manhattan

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#27 View of Grand Central Terminal from Park Avenue, Manhattan, 1947

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#28 Streetlights Blazing Over Greenwich Village, Manhattan, 1947

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#29 Huge Billboards Hanging Above the Broadway Entrance, Manhattan, 1948

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#30 Exterior of Mayoral Residence, Gracie Mansion, Manhattan, 1947

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#31 Litter and Garbage Filling Vacant Lot in East Harlem, Manhattan, 1948

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#32 New York City Police Department Mounted Unit on Broadway, Manhattan, 1949

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#33 High-Angle View of the Hotel Chelsea, Manhattan, March 1947

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#34 Congress of Industrial Organizations Rally Supporting Job Loss Victims, Manhattan, Circa 1945

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#35 Ladies Queue to Purchase Nylons on East 44th Street, Manhattan, November 1945

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#36 Pedestrians on 47th Street and 7th Avenue During a Blizzard, Manhattan, February 1947

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#37 Pedestrians Sheltering from Snow and Freezing Rain in Herald Square, Manhattan, March 1940

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#38 View from a Tall Building in Midtown, Manhattan, Circa 1940

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#39 United States Life Insurance Company on the Corner of Mott Street and Pell Street in Chinatown, Manhattan, 1940.

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#40 Co-op Drivers Cab Parked Outside the Hotel Algonquin on West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, 1940.

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#41 Whelan Drugs Store and a DeSoto Sky-View Taxicab on 42nd Street in Manhattan, 1940.

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#42 Berger’s Hardware Company Store at 574 Ninth Avenue, Manhattan, 1940.

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#43 Members of the American Dancers Anti-Fascist Protest Committee Picket the New York City Center Theatre to Protest Serge Lifar, Manhattan, 1948.

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#44 Two Marines Walk Down a Street in Harlem, Manhattan, 1943.

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#45 Fish and Seafood Loaded into Trucks at the Fulton Fish Market for Delivery to Retail Stores, Manhattan, 1946.

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#46 Trading Floor with 15 Trading Posts Accommodating 65 Different Stocks on Wall Street, Manhattan, 1940.

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#47 High Angle View of a Rally Calling on US President Harry Truman to Veto the ‘Hartley-Taft Slave Labor Bill’ at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, 1947.

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#48 Smoke from Bursting Bombs During Air Raid Drill at Union Square, Manhattan, 1940.

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#49 View between Rockefeller Center Complex with Empire State Building in the Distance, Manhattan, 1946.

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#50 American Legion Roof Spotter Benjamin Franklin Enjoys the New York Skyline, Manhattan, 1940.

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#51 Pennsylvania Station in New York Pictured from the Corner of Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, 1940.

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#52 Picture of Columbus Circle at the Intersection of 8th Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South and Central Park West, Manhattan, 1947.

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#53 Long View Beneath the Third Avenue Elevated Train Tracks, Manhattan, 1940.

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#54 Scene in Harlem Area, Manhattan, 1940.

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#55 Passengers on a Train at Times Square New York City Subway Station, Manhattan, 1948.

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#56 People Rest in Washington Square Park, Manhattan, 1947.

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#57 Many Accidents Are Attributed to Unpatrolled Intersections in Harlem, Manhattan, 1940.

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#58 Traffic at 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Manhattan, 1946.

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#59 Pedestrians Walk Along the Snow-Covered Sidewalk Outside the Beacon Theatre on Broadway, Manhattan, 1941.

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#60 Capitol Theater Marquee on Broadway Reads “Tracy and Hepburn in MGM’s ‘Adam’s Rib'”, Manhattan, 1949.

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#61 Roseland Theatre Marquee on Broadway, Manhattan, 1949.

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#62 Little Girl Holds Balloons at a Local Greenwich Village Farmers Market, Manhattan, 1947.

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#63 Aerial View of the Washington Square Arch, Manhattan, 1947.

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#64 View of Pedestrian and Street Traffic in Times Square, Manhattan, Spring 1940.

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#65 Elevated View Along Broadway with Chrysler Building in the Background, Manhattan, 1940.

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#66 Solitary Drinker, Lafayette Hotel, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, 1945.

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#67 Nassau Street Looking South, Manhattan, 1940.

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#68 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, 1940.

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#69 Cars Parked Along the Sidewalk with Pedestrians Outside Stores on Mott Street in Chinatown, Manhattan, 1945.

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#70 52nd Street, Manhattan, 1948

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#71 Times Square, Manhattan, 1947

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#72 Times Square, Manhattan, 1947

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#73 Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, 1947

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#74 52nd Street, Manhattan, 1948

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#75 52nd Street, Manhattan, 1948

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#76 A Harlem Street Scene, Manhattan, 1948

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#77 Late Evening on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, 1948

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#78 Harlem Apartment House, Manhattan, 1948

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#79 Many Accidents Are Attributed to Unpatrolled Intersections in Harlem, Manhattan, 1948

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#80 Fulton Fish Market, New York City, Manhattan, 1948

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#81 A Harlem Apartment House, Manhattan, 1948

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#82 One of the Numerous Employment Agency Signs in the Harlem Area, Manhattan, 1948

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#83 Children Playing in a Harlem Sprinkler, Manhattan, 1946

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#84 The Manhattan Bridge from Madison & Pike Streets, Manhattan, 1946

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#85 Fulton Fish Market Wharf, Manhattan, 1946

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#86 Rainy Day in New York, Manhattan, 1941

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#87 New York Bus Stand, Manhattan, 1941

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#88 Winter in New York, Manhattan, 1945

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#89 1944 United States Presidential Election in Times Square, Manhattan, 1944

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#90 Truck with Flat Tire on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Manhattan, 1949

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#91 Piccadilly in New York, Installation in Duffy Square, Corner of Times Square, Manhattan, 1940

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#92 A Couple Crosses the Street at Broadway and West 49th Street, near Ambassador Theatre in Times Square, Manhattan, 1947

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#93 Heavy Car Taxi Traffic Looking North up Park Avenue to Grand Central Station and 230 Park Avenue, Manhattan, 1940s

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#94 Pedestrians on Sidewalk and Automobile Traffic in Front of Stock Exchange Building, Wall Street, Manhattan, 1940s

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#95 Pedestrians, Cars, Taxis, Buses, Trolley Traffic Fifth Avenue Looking North from Below 42nd Street, Manhattan, 1940s

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#96 Group of Anonymous Tourists Standing on Top of RCA Building Looking North Towards Central Park, Manhattan, 1940s

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#97 Lower East Side with Signs in Yiddish on Delancy Street, Barber Shop with Williamsburg Bridge in Background, Manhattan, 1940s

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#98 View of Lower Manhattan from 30 Rockefeller Plaza Observatory with Empire State Building, Manhattan, 1949

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#99 Lower East Side Shop Sign for Flags, Books, Badges, Button in Yiddish, Hebrew Alphabet, Manhattan, 1940s

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#100 Sad Faced Kids Watch Marian Duffy Give Bouquet to Nurse for Ailing Babe Ruth at Memorial Hospital, Manhattan, 1945

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#101 Looking up Fifth Avenue from Across the Front of the Public Library, Midtown, Manhattan, 1940s

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#102 Elevated View of the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Manhattan, 1946

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#103 Elevated View of Automobile Traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, 1940

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#104 Nighttime View over the Manhattan Skyline, Manhattan, 1945

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#105 Buses and Passengers at Times Square Terminal of Public Service and All American Bus Lines, Manhattan, 1940s

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#106 Exterior View of Carnegie Hall, at 7th Avenue and West 56th Street, Manhattan, 1941

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#107 ASPCA Ambulance Carries an Ailing Horse, Corner of Broadway and 66th Street, Manhattan, 1940s

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#108 New York City Sidewalk Crowd in Front of Alexander’s Hardware Store, Manhattan, 1940s

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#109 Grand Central Station Pedestrian Sailor Uniform, Taxi Store, 42nd Street Sidewalk, Manhattan, 1940s

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#110 Buy Defense Bonds Billboard at Statue of Father Duffy at Times Square, Manhattan, 1940s

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#111 Boys Working in Wartime Victory Garden, Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan, 1940s

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#112 Aerial View of 6th Avenue from the Top of the Rock Observatory, Manhattan, 1949

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#113 Herald Square Intersection 34th Broadway and Avenue of the Americas Looking North, Manhattan, 1940s

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#114 Looking South Towards Times Square in Midtown, Manhattan, 1940s

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#115 Duffy Square, Part of Times Square with Gaudy Signs, Pedestrians, Cars, Taxis, Manhattan, 1940s

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#116 WWII War Bond Rally, New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street, Manhattan, 1942

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#117 African American Men Stand in Front of a Restaurant in Harlem, Manhattan, 1946

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#118 Afro-American Nun Walks on Broadway in the Used Car Dealership District, North Manhattan, 1947

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#119 Women with a Baby Carriage Meet Students on a Sidewalk of Broadway, Manhattan, 1947

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#120 A Woman and Her Child Pass by Huge Watermelons on the Sidewalk, Harlem, Manhattan, 1946

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#121 A View of Hunter College at Park Avenue and 68th Street, Manhattan, 1944

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#122 L Motors, Dodge Car Showroom at Night, Broadway at 177th Street, Manhattan, 1948

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#123 Street Scene on Rainy Day, Times Square, Manhattan, 1943

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#124 Edwin Rosskam, U.S. Farm Security Administration/U.S. Office of War Information, Manhattan, 1941

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#125 Famous Latin Quarter Night Club on the Corner of Broadway and West 48th Street in Manhattan, 1946

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#126 17th and 18th Century Graves Covered with Snow in the Cemetery Surrounding Trinity Church, Manhattan, 1947

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#127 African American People Get on a Bus in Harlem, Manhattan, 1946

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#128 People Walk on Broadway While a Film by Charlie Chaplin Is Screened in the Theater District, Manhattan, 1947

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#129 A Man Prepares Mail in Front of the Capitol Theater near Lindy’s Restaurant, Manhattan, 1947

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#130 Winter Garden Theatre, Located at 1634 Broadway in the Theater District, Manhattan, 1947

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#131 Jane Ace and Goodman Ace Relax in Their Apartment with a View Towards Central Park, Manhattan, 1947

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#132 Illuminated Storefronts of Apollo Theater and Times Square Theater, Manhattan, 1947

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#133 Street Scene on Rainy Day, Times Square, Manhattan, 1943

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#134 Crowd in Madison Square on D-Day, Manhattan, 1944

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#135 Camel Cigarettes Advertisement, Times Square, Manhattan, 1943

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#136 “Fifth Avenue Candy Bar Presents ‘Strike It Rich’ with Todd Russell” at CBS Radio Theater, Manhattan, 1947

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#137 Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, 1941

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#138 Tourists Ride on the Manhattan Sightseeing Tour Bus, Manhattan, 1947

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#139 Two Men Chat in Mott Street, near the Merchants Club, Chinatown, Manhattan, 1947

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#140 Subway Station near Chinatown, Manhattan, 1947

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#141 Pedestrians in Times Square, Manhattan, 1947

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#142 Motorcade Welcoming General Dwight D. Eisenhower Home from WWII at City Hall Park, Manhattan, 1945

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#143 Delivery Man Carries Newspapers on Broadway, Manhattan, 1947

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#144 CBS News Reporting during the Parade Welcoming General Dwight D. Eisenhower at City Hall Park, Manhattan, 1945

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#145 View of Fifth Avenue Looking South from 36th Street, Manhattan, 1910s

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#146 Cityscape at Night, View from Carlyle Hotel, Manhattan, 1937

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#147 Cars Driving down Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday, Manhattan, 1913

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#148 Manhattan Skyline and Welfare Island, Midtown, Manhattan, 1940s

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#149 View of Mott Street past the Port Arthur Restaurant in Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, 1943

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#150 Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Skyline, Manhattan, 1940s

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#151 New York City Police Department Mounted Unit on Broadway, Manhattan, 1949

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#152 Broadway at Night, Illuminated Times Square, Manhattan, 1946

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