DH Monday: Mapping Anthony Angel’s Photographs of Manhattan
Screenshot of the cover image from “Midcentury Manhattan: Mapping Anthony Angel’s photographic journey through Midtown Manhattan and beyond.” [Washington Square – Fall of 1953 (crowd gathered on fountain steps of Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City). Anthony Angel Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division]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 Anthony Angel’s photographic journey through Midtown Manhattan and beyond.”
![Screenshot of the cover image from Midcentury Manhattan: Mapping Anthony Angel’s photographic journey through Midtown Manhattan and beyond [Washington Square - Fall of 1953 (crowd gathered on fountain steps of Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City). Anthony Angel Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division]](https://mirl.arthistory.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/screenshot-310.png)