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Back to mapBetween 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of most buildings in the five boroughs of New York City. In 2018, the NYC Municipal Archives completed the digitization and tagging of these photos. This website places them on a map.
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The photos on this site were retrieved from the NYC Department of Records, with which this site is not affiliated. Photos were placed on the map in an automated fashion, and may be inaccurate.
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