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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [NY IRISH] NYC photos
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:34:30 -0800

During the 1930's, local governments began to use photography as a tool for appraising real
property for taxation purposes. New York City was the largest municipality to adopt this
technology. Between 1939 and 1941, the city photographed every house and building in the five
Boroughs. The result was 720,000 35mm black and white images. The Municipal Archives acquired
the original negatives (20,000 strips of film stored in cans) in the early 1980s.


You can order pictures at:
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doris/html/collections_photographs.html

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Pat Connors, Sacramento CA
http://www.connorsgenealogy.com
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