Much like the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information’s employment of photographers during the 1930s and 1940s, the Historic American Buildings Survey was established in the 1930s to create work for architects. However, the latter continued for decades afterward, eventually morphing into the Historic American Engineering Record, for which these Jack Boucher photos of the Third Avenue El terminus (around 147th through 149th) in the Bronx were taken. The HAER was established in 1969 and the Third Avenue El was closed in 1973 and demolished in 1977, so we can see that Boucher was trying to document the El before he no longer had the chance to do so. What do you see here?
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