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Floyd Quinney Takes a Picture

Date: 1926
Description: Floyd Quinney focusing his Kodak Autographic on a suburban street.
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Staten Island Ferry

Date: 1969
Description: Staten Island Ferry, Lower Manhattan.
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Man Sleeping, Bowery

Date: 1968
Description: Man sleeping on a sidewalk in front of a retractable metal gate in the Bowery.
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Resting in the Sun, Coney Island

Date: 1968
Description: A group of five men and women sit on metal crates in the sun on the Coney Island boardwalk.
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A Boy, East 102nd Street

Date: 1968
Description: A boy in a short coat stands in front of a brick wall in a debris-strewn alley at East 102nd Street.
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Boys Playing in Abandoned Building, East Village

Date: 1968
Description: View from below of two boys standing in a doorway opening of an abandoned brick building in the East Village.
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Woman With Parcel, Lower Eastside

Date: 1968
Description: A woman with a scarf on her head and holding a parcel engaged in a conversation. Only the hand of the other speaker is visible in the photograph.
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Men Under the Brooklyn Bridge

Date: 1968
Description: Two men on a derelict car under the Brooklyn Bridge. They appear to be salvaging parts. Other wrecked vehicles crowd the area.
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Children Posing, Coney Island

Date: 1968
Description: A group of five girls holding school books pose for a portrait in front of a building on Coney Island.
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Observation, Battery Park

Date: 1968
Description: A boy looking through a pay binocular stand in Battery Park. Graffiti makes the device seem to smile and young trees grow in the background.
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Barber, West Village

Date: 1968
Description: View of a barber in the West Village taking a nap on the fully reclined shop chair, seen through the shop's front window from the street.
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Playground, Jacob Riis Houses

Date: 1968
Description: View from below of two boys on a jungle gym. Some of the brick buildings of the Jacob Riis Houses rise in the background.
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Couple on the Pier, East River

Date: 1968
Description: A fashionably dressed young couple stand in an embrace on a pier on the East River. The river and a waterfront warehouse are visible behind them.
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Conversation, Riverside Park

Date: 1968
Description: Two women sitting on a bench in Riverside Park having a conversation. The picture is taken from behind with the shoreline far below the women in the backg...
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Motorcycle, Inwood Hill Park

Date: 1968
Description: Close-up of a motorcycle with a package lashed to the back is parked at the curb in Inwood Hill Park. Park goers are visible on the grassy hill in the back...
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Fisherman, West Channel of the East River

Date: 1968
Description: A fisherman baits his hook at a park bench missing its seat. A metal fence divides the paved shore from the west channel of the East River in the backgrou...
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"Ho Lives," East Village

Date: 1968
Description: Two women having a conversation standing on a sidewalk next to a brick building and near a decorative metal fence. Graffiti on the brick wall reads, "Ho l...
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Bocce, East Houston Street

Date: 1968
Description: A group of men watch a bocce game on a court on East Houston Street. The line of men standing on the lip of the court cast elongated silhouettes onto the ...
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Rollercoaster, Coney Island

Date: 1968
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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Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry

Date: 1968
Description: View of Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry, with a couple standing in the foreground. The woman is wearing a leopard print coat, and seagulls wheel in ...

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