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inthevintagekitchen · 10 months
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The Magical Second Life of Samuel Gottscho and a Locally Inspired Recipe to Match
Orient Point, Long Island en route to Southold, NY When Samuel Gottscho began his professional photography career at the age of 50, it was a leap of faith and a vast change from the garment industry salesman job he had known all his adult life. By this point, as he entered into his fifth decade, he was a husband and a father with a young daughter to raise and a long-time reputation in the…
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jepergola · 1 year
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New story today: "Dramatic Irony in Action"
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agelessphotography · 3 months
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A DC-4 Flying Over New York City, Margaret Bourke-White, 1939
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clarulitas · 4 months
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Fred Astaire aboard the S.S. Berengaria arriving in New York City after a European vacation, c. Apr, 1936
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voca1ion · 4 months
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Some of the best and oldest color photography i’ve seen of New York City c1939 thanks to Macy’s color view postcard series.
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newyorkthegoldenage · 2 months
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A back alley in a row of tenements, 1937.
Photo: Max Yavno via the Museum of Contemporary Art
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kafkasapartment · 3 months
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George Washington Bridge, 1931. Edward Steichen Gelatin silver print.
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oncanvas · 6 months
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Christopher Street, Greenwich Village, Beulah Bettersworth, 1934
Oil on canvas 30 ⅛ x 24 ¼ in. (76.5 x 61.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA
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mrmousetolliver · 16 days
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Dancer Fred Astaire and Mrs. Hortense Lowits playing miniature golf on a course atop the Hotel White at Lexington Avenue and 37th street in New York City. (1930)
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semioticapocalypse · 7 months
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Carl Russell waves to his co-workers on the structural work of the 88th floor. 1930
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lionofchaeronea · 8 months
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Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, Berenice Abbott, 1935
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retropopcult · 1 year
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“Times Square: 46th Street night bus coming down Broadway under the bright lights of the marquees.”  Photographed February 1936 by Charles Phelps Cushing.
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agelessphotography · 20 days
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Pennsylvania Station Interior, Berenice Abbott, July 14, 1936
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lonestarbattleship · 26 days
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"WHICH WAR DOG WILL SURVIVE?
Both USS WYOMING (BB-32) (left) and USS ARKANSAS (BB-33) (right) must be scrapped under the terms of the London naval treaty. But one will escape the scrap heap as a training ship. They wait in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, while officers decide."
Date: May 14, 1930
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voca1ion · 4 months
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1930s trifold postcard depicting the then-new Chrysler building on Lexington Avenue 42nd street.
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newyorkthegoldenage · 5 months
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Life cover from December 28, 1936 featuring members of the Metropolitan Opera's ballet company practicing. This company, called the American Ballet, eventually morphed into the New York City Ballet.
Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt via Life magazine Instagram
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