Beautiful Vintage Black And White Photos Of New York City In The Summer Of 1938

Children on 1st Avenue

Sheldon Dick

New York City in the summer of 1938 was wet. On June 28, 1.69 inches of rain fell on the city – a record for the date. On July 23, 2.40 inches of rain fell. Minding where they stepped, photographers Jack Allison, Sheldon Dick, Walker Evans and Russell Lee photographed the city as pat of the Farm Security Administration’s aim to record American life between 1935 and 1944.

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New York, New York

Jack Allison

Mrs. Montefiori at the kitchen of her apartment. 340 East 63rd Street

Sheldon Dick

First international photographic exhibit. New York City

Rothstein Arthur

Surrealistic window display, Bergdorf Goodman, New York City

Russell Lee

NCorner of 62nd Street and 1st Avenue

Sheldon Dick

New York, New York

Jack Allison

East 63rd Street

Sheldon Dick

East 63rd Street

Sheldon Dick

61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. Children playing in the street

Evans Walker

Children on East Sixty-first Street, probably between First and Second Avenues

Evans Walker

Children playing on East 63rd Street

Sheldon Dick

Children playing in the 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues

Evans Walker

A woman and girls at the back of an apartment house on East 63rd Street

Sheldon Dick

A group of boys on East 62nd (or 63rd) Street

Sheldon Dick

New York, New York

Jack Allison

Peanut wagon on Lenox Avenue and 133rd Street, New York City

Jack Allison

New York, New York

Jack Allison

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