Percy Loomis Sperr produced more than 40,000 photos of the five boroughs from the 1920s through 1940s, hired by the New York Public Library to chronicle the changing architectural landscape of the city.
“Even though they were photos that were not meant to be artistic in any way, they give us a glimpse of what the area looked like almost 100 years ago,” said Jason Antos, board president of the Queens Historical Society.
Sperr’s work is part of a new photo exhibition at the Queens Historical Society’s headquarters at the Kingsland Homestead in Flushing, a historic house from the 18th Century. It shows a Queens that was
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