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Institution:
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New York City Department of Records
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Collection Name:
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Dof: Bronx 1980S Tax Photos
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Category:
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Records: Government, Organizations, Business
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Link to collection:
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http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/rg06iw
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Description:
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Department of Finance 1980s Bronx. 85,345 images in gallery. By the early 1980s, the Department of Finance determined that the 1939/40 photographs were too out-dated for property tax appraisal purposes. From 1983 to 1988, using 35mm cameras, they photographed every property in the five boroughs, including vacant lots and tax-exempt buildings. They used color film stock producing over 800,000 photographs in both print and negative formats. Taking advantage of then-new technology ca. 1989, they recorded each print as a single frame on Laser Video Disks (LVDs), using analog video capture. The Archives extracted low-resolution tiffs of each frame from the LVDs for viewing in the gallery. High-resolution scans or prints can be ordered from the original negatives. Contact the Archives if there is not a picture in the gallery of a building that is known to have existed in the 1980s.
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