Parks Photo Archive negatives, 1934-1966.

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Parks Photo Archive negatives, 1934-1966.

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Negatives, ranging in size from 2 1/4 to 8x10, show park roadways and structures, swimming pools, beaches, golf courses, running tracks, ball fields, bridges, playgrounds, and other areas in New York City's parks, particularly Central Park in Manhattan, and Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx. Views of opening ceremonies and other official functions, street scenes, and other views showing people in the parks are also included. Construction and repair work in the parks and park roadways that took place with W.P.A. funding under Parks Commissioner Robert Moses is well documented. Photographers represented are Alajos Schuszler, Max Ulrich, Eric Baker, Rodney McCay Morgan, Savastano, Richard Averill Smith, and Richard Guthridge, and aerial photography firms including McLaughlin Air Service, Fairchild Aerial Views, Skyviews, W.O. Davies, and Flying Camera, Inc.

33,370 negatives.

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Ulrich, Max.

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Skyviews Inc.

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Morgan, Rodney McCay.

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Smith, Richard Averill.

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New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Parks and Recreation. Park Historian's Office.

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Guthridge, Richard C.

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United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

Schuszler, Alajos.

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Moses, Robert, 1888-1981

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Robert Moses (1888-1981) was a public official in New York from 1919 to the mid-1970s. He held many offices, of which the most notable among them were: President, Long Island State Park Commission; Chairman, New York State Council of Parks; Commissioner, New York City Department of Parks; New York City Planning Commissioner and Construction Coordinator; and Chairman, New York State Power and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authorities. He was responsible for the construction of many major public pr...

W. O. Davies (Firm)

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Flying Camera, inc.

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Fairchild Aerial Views.

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Baker, Eric W., 1930-

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McLaughlin Air Service.

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