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Rare Color Photos Of 1940s New York City
Almost seventy years ago, photographer Charles Weever Cushman set out Manhattan to take pictures with his expensive Kodachrome camera. What's most impressive now is how little the city looks to have changed. Aside from how good the cars and hobos used to look, of course.
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1. Liberty Street Ferry, Sept. 1941
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2. Lower East Side, Oct. 1941
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3. Busy street, Oct. 1942
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4. McSorley's Old Ale House on East 7th St., Oct. 1942
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5. McSorley's Old Ale House, today
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6. Three homeless men in Battery Park, June 1941
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7. Brooklyn Bridge, June 1941
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8. Beverages cart, Bowling Green, Oct. 1942
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9. Chinatown, Oct. 1942
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10. Man looking out from Battery Park, June 1941
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11. Lower end of Broadway, Oct. 1942
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12. Lower Clinton St., Sept. 1941
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13. Broome Street and Baruch Place, Lower East Side, Sept. 1941
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14. Two children, happy after moving into a new housing project, Oct. 1942
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15. Pearl St., Oct. 1942
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16. Oct. 1942
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17. Wall St., June 1941
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18. Lower East Side, Oct. 1942
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19. Lower Manhattan from a Jersey City ferry, Sept., 1941
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