Manhattan in the 1930s

Park Avenue and 39th Street

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)As Abbott began her exhaustive project, the stock market suffered a devastating crash. The photographer struggled to keep up with her docum

Penn Station

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

422-424 Lenox Avenue, Harlem

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

Fulton Street fish market

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

Avenue D and East 10th Street

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

Seventh Avenue, looking south from 35th Street

(Berenice Abbott

28th Street station

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

Union Square

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

Rockefeller Center, Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

Madison Square

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

Herald Square

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

Greyhound Bus Terminal, 33rd and 34th streets between Seventh and Eighth avenues

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)

Manhattan skyline, from South Street and Jones Lane

(Berenice Abbott / From The New York Public Library)**View the rest of the collection here**