New York Historic photos, documents, and people

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New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times department. Finished papers come out of cutting and folding machine on rapidly moving belt. Every fiftieth is automatically slated to facilitate coun

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New York, New York. Photographic department of the New York Times newspaper. One of eight staff photographers returns to staff room after assignment. Over door is eulogy of new camera. At left are maps

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New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. Clippings on every conceivable subject are filed here for a reference. Editors and writers phone in for information. In center background i

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New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. Tommy Bracken, head of the Morgue, who has been with the paper fifty-one years and is its oldest employee, looking up something for an edit

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New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. Reporters and rewrite men writing stories, and waiting to be sent out. Rewrite man in background gets the story on the phone from reporter

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New York, New York. Workers' bookshop in a building on 13th Street between University Place and Broadway, which is the headquarters of the Communist party. No mention of Communism appears in the displa

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New York, New York. Workers' bookshop in a building on 13th Street between University Place and Broadway, which is the headquarters of the Communist party. No mention of Communism appears in the displa

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New York, New York. Italian-American Legionnaries marching in a parade on Mott Street, at the Feast of San Rocco (August 16) which ended in a flag raising ceremony in honor of the boys of the neighborh

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Schenectady, New York. The Army has requested all flying gliders, therefore these boys had to build one that wouldn't fly. This glider was built as a climax to a two-semester course in pre-flight aeron