New York City in the summer of 1938 was wet. On June 28, 1.69 inches of rain fell on the city – a record for the date. On July 23, 2.40 inches of rain fell. Minding where they stepped, photographers Jack Allison, Sheldon Dick, Walker Evans and Russell Lee photographed the city as pat of the Farm Security Administration’s aim to record American life between 1935 and 1944.
Title: New York, New York. Children on 1st Avenue
Creator(s): Dick, Sheldon, photographer
Title: New York, New York
Creator(s): Allison, Jack, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938 Summer.
Title: Mrs. Montefiori at the kitchen of her apartment. 340 East 63rd Street
Creator(s): Dick, Sheldon, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938
Title: First international photographic exhibit. New York City
Creator(s): Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938
Title: Surrealistic window display, Bergdorf Goodman, New York City
Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938
Title: New York, New York. Corner of 62nd Street and 1st Avenue
Creator(s): Dick, Sheldon, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938
Title: New York, New York
Creator(s): Allison, Jack, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938 Summer.
Title: New York, New York. East 63rd Street
Creator(s): Dick, Sheldon, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938
Title: New York, New York. East 63rd Street
Creator(s): Dick, Sheldon, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938
Title: New York, New York. 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. Children playing in the street
Creator(s): Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938 Summer.
Title: New York, New York. 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. Children playing in the street
Other Title: Children on East Sixty-first Street, probably between First and Second Avenues
Creator(s): Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer
Title: New York, New York. 1938(?). Children playing on East 63rd Street
Creator(s): Dick, Sheldon, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938
Title: New York, New York. 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. Children playing in the street
Creator(s): Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer
Title: New York, New York. 1938(?) A woman and girls at the back of an apartment house on East 63rd Street
Creator(s): Dick, Sheldon, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938?
Title: New York, New York. 1938. A group of boys on East 62nd (or 63rd) Street
Creator(s): Dick, Sheldon, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938.
Title: New York, New York
Creator(s): Allison, Jack, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938 Summer.
Title: Peanut wagon on Lenox Avenue and 133rd Street, New York City
Creator(s): Allison, Jack, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938 June.
Title: New York, New York
Creator(s): Allison, Jack, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1938 Summer.
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