World War Two and New York Presented By Kenneth T. Jackson Jacques Barzun Professor of History and...

World War Two and New YorkPresented

By Kenneth T. JacksonJacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and

Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University

Brian Carlin Teaching American History Project Director, NYCDOE

David Smith, Medal for Dishonor: Death by Gas

Empire State Building, N.Y.C

Andreas Feininger storefront photographs

German-American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden

Friends of the New Germany Membership Card

Bund Members hailing The Swastika

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Italian Americans Celebrating the conquest of Ethiopia

Fur Workers Protesting Krlstalnacht

Anti-European Involvement Group carrying signs in NYC

Casualty,by Thomas Hart Benton, part of his Year of Peril series

1942

Brooklyn Navy Yard workers volunteer for Pearl Harbor service

Sinking of freighterby WW-II German U-boat(Tom W. Freeman, Artist)

New Yorker June 13, 1942

Volunteers Swamp Recruitment Offices

Collecting the Salvage on Lower East Side

New York City Boys Organize Tin Club

USS Missouri

1944 Launching at Brooklyn Navy

Yard

Aerial View of Brooklyn Navy Yard,1944

Norden Bombsight

Brooks Brothers uniform

F3F-2 Fighters at The Grumman Factory,1938

The former French luxury liner Normandie lies on its side following 1942 blaze.

Cyclotron

Women at work

German and Italian Americans detained on Ellis Island, December 24, 1943

Segregated Showers

American Jewish Committee protest at

Madison Square Garden, March 15, 1937

Embarkation (Prelude to Death) by Thomas Hart Benton

Brooklyn Army Terminal

Stage Door Canteen, NYC

Irving Boyer’s, Prospect Park, ca. 1942–1944

Soldier consoling his weeping wife as he says goodbye at Pennsylvania Station

End of an Era, New York

Allied Convoy

D-DAY, June 6 1944 Normandy

War Series: The Letter by Jacob Lawrence (1946)