New York Historic photos, documents, and people

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Schenectady, New York. Sixth graders at the Elmer Avenue Elementary School bringing a war map up to date. This map is changed daily. News is gotten from the morning papers and the radio in the classroo

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Camouflage class in New York University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work ou

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More details This picture of Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott was made at West Point, N.Y., June 10, 1862. The subscribers claim that, for correctness of portraiture, finish and detail, it is pre-eminentl

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From Mike Gillett: "My Grandfather and Grandmother Orville and Nora (Bixby) Gillett in 1914. Here Gramps is teaching Grandma how to drive, while they were dating, in his 1908-10 Overland. Broome Co.,

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Bowling Alleys, connected with Geo. P. Grays, "Bastable Caf " on Genesee St. About 8 very small boys employed here. Work until midnight. Photo taken at 11:30 P.M. Location: Syracuse, New York (State)

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3:30 P.M. Group in tenement hallway. Ages, 14 months, 2, 5, and 7 years. Mother in shop sewing. Father out of work, bartender. Family, Novi, 189 Chrystie Street. Location: New York, New York (State)

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro bench-lathe worker, who is receiving training in machine shop practice, removing burrs from a special taper head screw

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro turret-lathe worker, who is receiving training in machine shop practice, learning a filing operation on a turret lathe

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Louis Gitney, a young compositor earning $7.00 a week in a Sixth Av. (N.Y.) printing office. He learned the trade at Public School 64. L.W. Hine, Feb. 1917. Location: New York, New York (State)