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Two black Army soldiers assist a white man who was involved in a scuffle that occurred during the outbreak of a race riot in the Harlem area of New York City, Aug. A huge crowd in New York's Times Square jubilantly welcome the news that the Japanese had accepted the allies terms of surrender on Aug. An open pushcart vendor cleans fresh fish before weighing it for a customer at the corner of Orchard St. Men stop to look at fabric for sale at an outdoor table in front of a store in New York's Lower East Side on June 1, The parade is passing the reviewing stand in front of the Public Library, right.
The Third Avenue el winds its way through lower Manhattan, February 12, Otto Feinberg, a longshoreman, listens to his radio as he sits on the terrace wall in front of the New York Public Library on the corner of 42nd Street in New York January 29, A prospective customer grumbles under his breath at the prices scribbled on the window of this Bowery restaurant on New York's Lower East Side, Sept.
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One of the biggest selling items is soup and coffee, for 10 cents. It used to be a Nickel. A room with a partition and an electric light is up from 30 cents to 40 cents. The dormitories are 35 cents up from A pedestrian stops and enjoys a hot ear of corn from the vendor, at left, with his corn cooking machine in New York, July 14, This view looks south on Broadway with the Times Building in the center background. An elderly street merchant wheels his push cart loaded with crockery slowly along at the corner of Orchard and Delancy Streets on the Lower East Side of New York, July 14, Many a big business had its beginnings on the sidewalks of New York or in the push carts used by curb-side merchants.
B&W Photos Give Firsthand Perspective of Daily Life in 1940s New York
With the famed Rockefeller Center Christmas tree rising above them, skaters glide on the ice at the center's skating rink in midtown Manhattan, New York, in this photo from Dec. The blaze swept the structure for more than 16 hours causing most of the pier to collapse into the river. In the background beyond the boardwalk is the ferris wheel, center, and the Cyclone roller coaster at right.
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The 1940s: ‘Britain’s wartime women gained a new sense of power’
However, there were surprises along the way. The experience of my mother, Olivier Bell, was absolutely typical, and her story was brave and moving. Now years old, she started off as an air-raid warden, walking around Islington, north London, wearing a tin hat and telling people to get into their shelters.
Later, she got a job on the picture desk of the Ministry of Information. All this time she was in love with a married man in the RAF. In , he was killed on a training flight and the bottom dropped out of her world.
There were women who could talk down aircrews, break codes, track battleships, drive tonne trucks and save lives. No concession was made, however, for the fact that women had to go on running the home.
After the war, the home was where they were expected to return.