laporcupina:

New York City, 1941-42, in color.

The trio of photos in the second row are of the Lower East Side, so if you want to see what Howard Stark’s old neighborhood looked like (well after he put it behind him), here it is in all its yiddishkeit glory.

The last picture is of Cooper Union, which is my personal headcanon for Steve’s art school (in Cum Laude especially), so here’s what it looked like when he would have been attending. It looks the same now, 😉

The photos are part of a large trove at Indiana University’s Cushing collection. The NYC ones are of very specific parts of the city, almost entirely lower Manhattan in the peripheries — the docks, the Bowery, the LES — but are worth going through.