Berenice Abbott: New York City in the 1930s

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Berenice Abbott by Berenice Abbott / Steidl

El Station Interior, Sixth and Seventh Avenue Lines, Columbus Avenue and 72nd Street, New York, 1936
Of this frame, Abbott wrote, "I always felt these elevated stations were designed by the Swiss; they looked like little chalets...It was winter and the people were inside keeping warm, waiting for a train."

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