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Through these black and white photos of New York City, we can vision a growing metropolis of the 1920s and 1930s, with buildings reaching for the sky and bridges and tunnels crossing the rivers. Catapulted by the mass production of the automobile, a twentieth century industrial revolution had begun throughout Manhattan, New York and the world.

Many of these pictures emphasize the new buildings that were emerging over Manhattan, dominating the older buildings that preceded them. These buildings, inspired by designs of the popular art deco movement in New York and Chicago cast a new look over the older Victorian styles, and would forever change the skyline of Manhattan.

Our photographer Joseph H. Sachs (1901-2000) draws us into this time period with photos that entice us to become not just an observer, but also a participant, with a feeling that you are almost living the times of the early years of the twentieth century in New York City.


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