Women of the La Guardia Administration

Women of the La Guardia Administration.A reception honoring the women of the La Guardia municipal administration held at the Hotel Brevoort in Greenwich Village, 1937. Wagner and La Guardia Archives.

Officers of the City Engineer’s department

Officers of the City Engineer’s department. Staff No. 2 District based at Glebe Town Hall. Seated: Jim McCormack, District Engineer. Standing: Gordon Plumb (Clerk). 4 Sept.1961. NSCA CRS 48/1895. City of Sydney Archives. www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/participants/cofsa.html

Office Space

Richmond, VA – 1952

“City, crowded office space”

(Library of Virgina)

8 Mile Road

This cool set of maps of race/ethnicity in American cities by flickr user Eric Fischer is making the rounds. The data represented here are 2000 Census blocks. Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other. Each dot represents 25 people.

I’m particularly intrigued by how the Northern cities turn out. I’m no expert (to say the least), but cities like Detroit, MI (above) seem to show a much clearer pattern of racial segregation. That line north of downtown Detroit, separating white from black – that’s the storied 8 mile road.