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The Fulton Fish Market:  An unpublished Works Progress Administration (WPA) manuscript image

The Fulton Fish Market: An unpublished Works Progress Administration (WPA) manuscript
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The New York City Unit of the WPA Federal Writers’ Project provided meaningful employment for more than 300 writers, journalists, editors and photographers during the Great Depression. Although the collection includes research materials and draft manuscripts for 64 books, only a handful were published, notably the New York City Guide, and New York Panorama. This week we are posting an article about the Fulton Fish Market from one of the unpublished manuscripts – Feeding the City. As is typical of many FWP manuscripts, the name of the author is not clear (it may have been “McLellan”), but it is dated: October 1940. The original format of this story can be found with other excellent blogs: here.

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115 South Street image

115 South Street

Fish vendors, South Street, ca. 1937. WPA Federal Writers’ Project Photograph. Photographer: Clifford Sutcliffe. WPA FWP Collection, Municipal Archives.
115 South Street image

115 South Street

South Street west side from Beekman Street left up towards Peck Slip, still extant
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