New York Historic photos, documents, and people

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New York, New York. Library of the New York Times newspaper. Editors and writers can look up every conceivable subject and get information not available in the "morgue"

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Newsies selling at 10 P.M. Boy on left: Joseph Mandi, 11 years old, 241, 7th St.; James Yarnell, 13 years old, 179 N. Division St. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

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Newsie in cellar-room of a paper office in alley back of Main Street, waiting for evening papers, 4 P.M. Conditions here vile. Location: Rochester, New York (State)

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro, who is receiving training in arc welding, adjusting the output of a motor generator set

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro, who is receiving training in arc welding, adjusting the output of a motor generator set

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New York, New York. Composing room of the New York Times newspaper. Times daily index to the news is set partly by hand. This man has been doing it for fifteen years

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Horace Lindfors, 14 year old printers helper, sizing up leads for Riverside Press, First Av., N.Y. City. L.W. Hine, Feb. 1917. Location: New York, New York (State)

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Woman carrying flowers home, W. Houston St., N.Y. A short time ago she told me they were not going to make flowers any more. Location: New York, New York (State)

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Group of boys at noon, in the American Locomotive Works district. Smaller ones going to school. Some work in the factory. Location: Schenectady, New York (State)