1932

Squatters Colony - Camp Thomas Paine.

Squatters Colony, Camp Thomas Paine, Manhattan: A set of 3 views of this B.E.F. encampment of unemployed veterans on the Hudson River at the foot of West 75th Street. View No. 1 is northward across the New York Central Railroad tracks while Nos. 2 and 3 form a panoramic close-up. Across the background of all these views are the highlands of New Jersey. September 29, 1932. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection