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PHOTO GALLERY
We have chosen some of our most popular images for the Photo
Gallery. They have been arranged in sixteen thematic categories
based on the subject matter of the image. The WPA category
includes pictures taken or acquired by staff of the New York
City Unit of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal
Writer’s Project, a Depression-era program that employed
professional writers, journalists, and photographers. Click
here for more information about our other photographic collections.
Researchers can browse the images in each category
by clicking on the appropriate legend. Or, researchers can
view images pertaining to a particular subject by typing
in a word, or words, in the “Search Photo Gallery” box. This
function will return all images in which the word, or words,
appears in the title, description, or remarks. Associated
keywords have been assigned to each image. Researchers can
also click on the keywords to view other related images.
To purchase prints of these classic images, please use our
Order Form.
The Municipal Archives Photo Gallery was a pilot
project and contains only a small fraction of our 2 million
plus images. Researchers are encouraged to visit the online
Gallery as a starting point, but the Archives has digitized
tens of thousands of photographs that are now available only
via our research room computers. Plans are underway to
move this resource online in the near future, but if you
cannot visit our offices and/or have a research question,
please Contact Us.
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