New York County, New York Historic photos, documents, and people

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro bench-lathe worker, who is receiving training in machine shop practice, shown here removing a burr from a screw held in a co

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Two men, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, shown setting up shaper work to cut forty-five degree

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two bench workers, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, removing the burrs from a side piece for a metal pulley bloc

Bronx, New York. Background photo for Hightstown project. Many of the future Hightstown settlers are now living in the Bronx district. This is the street on which Mr. Morris Back and family, certified

Background photo for Hightstown project. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, where the Solomon family do their shopping. In the street and displayed on newspaper. All socks for sale at ten cents

New York, New York. Sunday dinner in the Martinetti home. He is a restaurant owner who lives in the Bronx. He is one of three partners in the restaurant, it is on lower Fifth Avenue, which caters to bu

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Sixth-grade pupil sketching out a mural of football players to be used as a decoration for the hallway in the school de

New York, New York. United Nations exhibition of photographs presented by the United States Office of War Information (OWI) on Rockefeller Plaza. Posters of all nations were mounted on colored boards a

New York, New York finale in a play on America at war, given by students of public school eight in an Italian-American district. Left to right: Uncle Sam, soldier, sailor, Chinese soldier, farmer, hous

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