At the NYC Public Library, Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott 1935-1938.
View 343 B&W photographs by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) from her Changing New York Works Progress Administration/ Federal Art Project. The Library’s collection holds about 80% of the project’s images.
The FAP was a Depression-era government program for unemployed artists and workers in related fields such as advertising, graphic design, illustration, photofinishing, and publishing.
Image: Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, Manhattan, October 3, 1935.
Other collections: “Classic 6″: New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880’s -1910.
