Four o'clock in the afternoon in a grocery store in Chinatown. There's a hazy quality to the light, and the staff appear sleepy.Click the photo to see a larger version. Taken by Marjory Collins in New York city, 1942. [American Memory link]
Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).
Four o'clock in the afternoon in a grocery store in Chinatown. There's a hazy quality to the light, and the staff appear sleepy.