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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Con Edison billboard for the World Trade Center. The sign reads "To meet the needs of the spectacular twin-towered World Trade Center we're strengthening y... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered around MGM's "trackless train" outside the Astor Theater where "The Big Parade" is showing. Also visible is a gigantic advertisement fo... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Graffiti on an advertisement for the Plaza Theatre which reads, "They Must Die." |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Side of a truck with the word "Navajo" printed on the side. |
| Date: | 06 15 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Rat Subterranean News," an underground newspaper, featuring Hubert Humphrey dressed as a police officer wearing a gas mask and a tie around his n... |
| Date: | 03 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The East Village Other," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon bomb on top of a pile of money. The headline reads, "Booming the Economy."... |
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| Description: | Homestead Bank, a two-story stone and wood building, from across the street. |
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| Description: | Corinthian columns, a high coffered ceiling, a skylight, and a chandelier adorn the lavish interior of the National City Bank of New York. The bank was bui... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd gathered in front of the Internal Revenue Service Manhattan District Office to protest war taxes. The protesters carry large... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of "Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares," a sculpture by Yevgeniy Vuchetich donated to the United Nations by the Soviet Union. The sculpture shows... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of an advertisement posted on East 4th Street which depicts three people lying in bed smoking marijuana. The copy below reads, "more--when everyt... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A woman standing in front of closed stalls on Coney Island. The framework for the Devil's Pit roller coaster rises in the background behind dilapidated si... |
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| Description: | A portrait of a shoeshine boy, with a brick wall forming the backdrop. His clothes are tattered, and his work box is hanging from a strap on his left shoul... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure celebrating a new International Harvester Manhattan branch, featuring an aerial photograph of Manhattan, including the corner of West 4... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Rosser Reeves and Dwight D. Eisenhower leaving the Transfilm Building after filming fifty political spots in one day. (Rosser Reeves wearing glasses.) Eise... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Woman standing in a store aisle examining a loaf of Levy and Sons Bakery rye bread. She is wearing a yellow shirt, colorful headband, and a beehive or bouf... |
| Date: | 06 05 1943 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Sir William Beveridge, author of the British "Cradle to the Grave" social security plan, and Arthur J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the Social... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Sign outside the Wisconsin Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair advertising a steak house, a beer garden, and the world's largest cheese. A portion of the pav... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of an artist's rendering of the Johnson's Wax Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. |
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