1940s-1950s: Manhattan Kodachromes by Howard Mayer
Written By Wolfgang Wild
Harold Mayer was a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee specialiosing in urban geography. He created a extensive photographic collection of around 50,000 slides which he used as an instructional tool in his teaching.
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1948: Times Square
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1956: Broadway near Herald Square
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Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue
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1956: Washington Square Park Arch
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1956: Lower East Side
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1956: designated children’s play street
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1956: Public housing development
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1956: MacDougall Alley
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1956: Stuyvesant Town
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1956: Stuyvesant Town residential development
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1951: United Nations buildings under construction
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P1956: Park Avenue North from 58th Street 1956
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1956: Near Herald Square
Images: University of Wisconsin
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