No skyscrapers, bustling docks and kids playing on every corner: Stunning photos turn back the clock to 1946 New York
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tographs-New-York-City-was.html#ixzz3SeTJzcIh
These stunning photographs show a lost vision of New York City, where streetcars barreled down Third Avenue, the Empire State Building was the tallest in town - and five cents could get you a a bag of fresh-roasted peanuts.
Taken by photographer Todd Webb in 1946, the collection of 15 black and white images show the then-bustling docks of Manhattan, the skyline as it was before glass-clad skyscrapers rose up in decades to come - and the people who called the city home.
Webb was around 40 years old when the images were taken, and had just returned from a posting as a Naval Photographer in the Second World War.
- Collection of photographs taken by Todd Webb around 1946 has been republished
- The photographer, who won a Guggenheim Fellowship, captured cityscape and individual residents
- NYC had a very different skyline in those days, when Empire State Building still dominated the city
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tographs-New-York-City-was.html#ixzz3SeTJzcIh
These stunning photographs show a lost vision of New York City, where streetcars barreled down Third Avenue, the Empire State Building was the tallest in town - and five cents could get you a a bag of fresh-roasted peanuts.
Taken by photographer Todd Webb in 1946, the collection of 15 black and white images show the then-bustling docks of Manhattan, the skyline as it was before glass-clad skyscrapers rose up in decades to come - and the people who called the city home.
Webb was around 40 years old when the images were taken, and had just returned from a posting as a Naval Photographer in the Second World War.