New York City in the early 1940s | Photos by Charles W. Cushman
Statue of Liberty from the Battery New York harbor, 1941
Stores near corner of Broome St. and Baruch Place, Lower East Side. New York, 1941
Chinese store windows New York, 1942
South Ferry bums, on a bench at noon hour, Battery Park, 1941
Lower East Side Corner Broome St. Baruch Pl. Saturday afternoon, 1941 / Lower Manhattan, 1942
Lower East side, 1942
Portable soft drink stand at Bowling Green, 1942 These boys live here. Block north of Wmsbgh Bridge, 1942
Sunday afternoon gossip, 1942
Buffalo’s skyline from Coast Guard point
A block between Avenues A and B
Lower Manhattan from Jersey City ferry boat, 1941
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Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries. >
