New york 1920 aesthetic

Cotton Club November 4, 1927 Duke Ellington’s big band opened at the famed Cotton Club in Harlem. It was the first appearance of the Duke’s new and larger group.

Ahead, see what New York was like during the Jazz Age, from old Ebbets Field to the height of Prohibition.

Wanamaker's Department Store in NYC at Christmas time, 1930’s.

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

Снимки интересны тем, что сделаны Францом Грассером, известным своей серией фронтовых снимков с восточного фронта, на которых изображена русская деревня, простые крестьяне, быт немецких солдат. Сам Грассер погиб под Новороссийском в 1944 году. А до войны он объездил весь мир, фотографировал в…