[8 Columbus Circle, Manhattan, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]
Can you spot the wingback chair?
Related reading
More photographs from the NYC Municipal Archives (Pinboard)
[Post title borrowed from Roland Barthes’s book about Japan. La Marseillaise (dir. Jean Renoir) was released in 1938. I don’t know when it arrived in the States. Swanee River (dir. Sidney Lanfield) was released on December 30, 1939.]
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Empire of signs
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I like "a key for any lock in the world"
I noticed that one too.
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