New Deal Tugboat Art (4/5): "Tugboats, Pier 17 East River"

Above: "Tugboats, Pier 17 East River," a photograph by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Abbott took this photograph while preparing for the 1939 book Changing New York, a work sponsored by the WPA's Federal Art Project. Photo courtesy of the General Services Administration and the Ackland Art Museum.