Friday, February 14, 2014

See the Real Old New York City

From April 24, 2012, Yahoo! News, AP "New York City portrayal online in 870,000 images" by Cristian Salazar and Randy Herschaft. //// Available online for the first time by the Department of Records. They were culled from the 2.2 million collection of the Municipal Archives in a four year project. //// Some of them date back to the mid-1800s. Most of them were taken by anonymous municipal workers. Some 1,300 are Depression-era Works Progress Adminstration photos. //// --Cooter

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