Month: September 2022

Photographer Angelo Antonio Rizzuto – or Anthony Angel, as he called himself –  captured a variety of people, structures, and places in Manhattan over the eighteen-year period from 1949 through 1967. Collectively, the thousands of images by Angel in the Prints & Photographs Division offer a window into life and the built environment in a place that has no shortage of subjects to draw one’s eye. Capitalizing on Angel’s coverage of nearly the entire length of Manhattan, Prints & Photographs Division Technical Services Technician Michelle An used Story Maps, a program that enables the creator to merge a narrative with mapping technology, to create a dynamic resource that encourages researchers to explore the collection in new ways: “Midcentury Manhattan: Mapping…