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The Fulton Fish Market:  An unpublished Works Progress Administration (WPA) manuscript image

The Fulton Fish Market: An unpublished Works Progress Administration (WPA) manuscript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 This week we are posting an article about the Fulton Fish Market from one of the unpublished manuscripts – Feeding the City.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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Pier 19 image

Pier 19

Lithograph titled "Peck Slip; N.Y. 1850" by G. Hayward, 120 Water St., for D.T. Valentine’s Manual, 1857. Print show two ferries docks at the end of Peck Slip, one for New Heaven, and one for Williamsburgh; Buildings on left, and in the background sailing ships and a ferry. In the foreground people, horse carriages, and hand-trucks.
Pier 19 image

Pier 19

Changing New York; Waterfront from Pier 19, East River Foot of Peck Slip, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background.
Pier 19 image

Pier 19

Peck Slip and South Street, ca. 1937. WPA Federal Art Project Photograph. WPA FWP Photograph Collection, NYC Municipal Archives.
Pier 19 image

Pier 19

Along the Docks South Street, New York.
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