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Worth Looking For

The WPA Guide to New York City


by William H. Whyte

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 736 PAGES

Here is New York before the Dodgers departed, when the Empire State Building was a newly built marvel and the World's Fair was a major event -- the vintage 1939 guide to New York by participants in the Federal Writers' Project. (NYC33, $24.95)

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