#1930s new york city

[inthevintagekitchen]

The Magical Second Life of Samuel Gottscho and a Locally Inspired Recipe to Match

Orient Point, Long Island en route to Southold, NY When Samuel Gottscho began his professional photography career at the age of 50, it was a leap of faith and a vast change from the garment industry salesman job he had known all his adult life. By this point, as he entered into his fifth decade, he was a husband and a father with a young daughter to raise and a long-time reputation in the…

[jepergola]

New story today: "Dramatic Irony in Action"

[newyorkthegoldenage]

An aerial view of the city, from the Empire State Building, February 5, 1937.

Photo: Corbis/Berlintapete

[agelessphotography]

Newsstand, East 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Berenice Abbott, 1935

[clarulitas]

Fred Astaire aboard the S.S. Berengaria arriving in New York City after a European vacation, c. Apr, 1936

[voca1ion]

Some of the best and oldest color photography i’ve seen of New York City c1939 thanks to Macy’s color view postcard series.

[precodesoul]

Jean Harlow poses in her suite at the Savoy-Plaza in Manhattan while in New York promoting HELL’S ANGELS | Photo taken on September 9, 1930.

[mrmousetolliver]

Dancer Fred Astaire and Mrs. Hortense Lowits playing miniature golf on a course atop the Hotel White at Lexington Avenue and 37th street in New York City. (1930)

[thepopculturearchivist]

THE NEW YORKER, October 14, 1939

[kafkasapartment]

George Washington Bridge, 1931. Edward Steichen Gelatin silver print.

[oncanvas]

Christopher Street, Greenwich Village, Beulah Bettersworth, 1934

Oil on canvas 30 ⅛ x 24 ¼ in. (76.5 x 61.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[dandyads]

The Plaza New York, 1935

[blondebrainpowered]

Aerial View of Men in Hats, NYC, 1930

Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The north side of East 20th Street, looking towards 1st Ave., 1938.

Photo: Berenice Abbott via Wikimedia Commons

[agelessphotography]

Pennsylvania Station Interior, Berenice Abbott, July 14, 1936

[lonestarbattleship]

"WHICH WAR DOG WILL SURVIVE?

Both USS WYOMING (BB-32) (left) and USS ARKANSAS (BB-33) (right) must be scrapped under the terms of the London naval treaty. But one will escape the scrap heap as a training ship. They wait in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, while officers decide."

Photographed on May 14, 1930.

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