#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"

[agelessphotography]

Pennsylvania Station Interior, Berenice Abbott, July 14, 1936

[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.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A back alley in a row of tenements, 1937.

Photo: Max Yavno via the Museum of Contemporary Art

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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)

[kafkasapartment]

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

[thepopculturearchivist]

THE NEW YORKER, October 14, 1939

[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

[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."

Date: May 14, 1930

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[sealedintime]

Broadway & 46th Street, New York, 1937

[agelessphotography]

A DC-4 Flying Over New York City, Margaret Bourke-White, 1939

[semioticapocalypse]

Carl Russell waves to his co-workers on the structural work of the 88th floor. 1930

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[voca1ion]

Many of the postcards from the 1930s and 1940s do a very bad job touching up the Chrysler Building, particularly mangling the crown. It’s nice to see that this one is very faithful to the real thing.