Politics and Culture
Todd Webb's street photos of New York, from the late 1940s:
Suffolk and Hester, Lower East Side, 1946
125th Street, Harlem, New York, 1945.
Near Fulton Fish Market, 1946.
La Salle Street and Amsterdam Avenue, Harlem, 1946.
Amsterdam Avenue, near 125th Street, 1946.
Under the Third Avenue EL, 1946.
From Empire State Building, Looking Southeast, 1946.
Fulton Fish Market, 1946.
[Photos © Todd Webb Archive]
Todd Webb previously.
Second photo from the top probably should be labeled 125th Street. 25th Street is nowhere near Harlem.
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Yep, thanks for spotting that. Corrected.
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Great pictures, btw.
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Nerdy question. Is that a gaff rigged schooner being unloaded?
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Oh gawd. I’m afraid that’s not one of my areas of expertise. I’ve looked up gaff rig on Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaff_rig – but still can’t help you.
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Mick, I saw these sort of boats at the recent tall ships festival on the Thames. Bit suprised that they would still be working ships in post war USA.
However makes for a great photo.
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Mick Hartley 
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