Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York

Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, New York City sent photographers to every building in every borough in an attempt to make property tax assessments fairer and more accurate. The result was more than 700,000 black-and-white snapshots, which were recently digitized.

Fecha: December 30, 2018 at 09:30PM
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