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City Hall Portrait Collection

Frank Cousins Collection

Karl Gruppe's Film Reels

WPA Abstract Murals

Taber Sears' Mural Series


Frank Cousins Collection

Guyon-Clarke House, 360 Guyon Avenue, Staten Island. Built in the late 1600s to early 1700s. Photograph by Frank Cousins, 1913.

In 1913, Frank Cousins was hired by the Commission to document more than 50 buildings that it felt were in danger of imminent demolition.

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