var alt_array = new Array(); var temp_array15 = new Array(); alt_array[0] = "bps_14725.jpg|bps_14725_s.jpg|Department of Plant and Structures|Williamsburg Bridge, showing unemployed|November 4, 1931|Men shoveling sand underneath the Williamsburg Bridge.|In a precurser to the Federal WPA programs, New York put the unemployed to work on city projects during the early years of the Great Depression.|N/A|Eugene de Salignac|N/A|Bridges – Williamsburg|BPS 14725"; alt_array[1] = "mac_0380.jpg|mac_0380_s.jpg|Municipal Archives Collection|Artist Howard Chandler Christy, 1951|1951|Howard Chandler Christy painting poster: Alert! For God and Country - Civilian Defence|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|MAC 380"; alt_array[2] = "wpa_art_tk.jpg|wpa_art_tk_s.jpg|WPA Federal Writers' Project|''Lascivious Sculptor Adoring His Art,'' ca. 1937|ca. 1937|Bearded sculptor applies the finishing touches to his sculpture of a female nude.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Art works, Artists|WPA Art-tk"; alt_array[3] = "wpa_0594a.jpg|wpa_0594a_s.jpg|WPA Federal Writers' Project|Packing the Sunday Times for Shipment, 1937|December 11, 1937|Workmen carry and bundle New York Times newspapers.|N/A|N/A|Hawes|N/A|Laborers, Newspapers|WPA 594a"; alt_array[4] = "wpa_0286.jpg|wpa_0286_s.jpg|WPA Federal Writers' Project|Aquarium Artist, 1935|December 2, 1935|A WPA-sponsored artist, at the New York Aquarium in Castle Clinton, Battery Park, Manhattan, paints a ''portrait'' of a darting fish.|N/A|N/A|W. Nolan|N/A|Artists, Aquarium, Castle Clinton|WPA 286"; alt_array[5] = "wpa_0407.jpg|wpa_0407_s.jpg|WPA Federal Wrtiers' Project|Central Park Zoo Keeper with Chimpanzees, 1937|June 1937|A uniformed Central Park Zoo keeper holds two chimpanzees in his arms; a young boy stands at right.|N/A|N/A|E. M. Bofinger|N/A|N/A|WPA 407"; alt_array[6] = "wpa_0727g.jpg|wpa_0727g_s.jpg|WPA Federal Writers' Project|White Woman Being Tattooed, ca. 1937|ca. 1937|Interior view of tattoo parlor showing tattoo artist Charlie Wagner applying tattoo on woman's leg; young man at left looks on. Sample tattoos are displayed on the wall.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Tattooing|WPA 727G"; alt_array[7] = "bps_12071.jpg|bps_12071_s.jpg|Department of Plant and Structures|Worker in Subway Tunnel, 1928|November 19, 1928|Interior view of William Street (Manhattan) subway cut, showing seated worker.|N/A|N/A|Eugene de Salignac|N/A|Laborers|BPS 12071"; alt_array[8] = "dsc_0063.jpg|dsc_0063_s.jpg|Department of Street Cleaning|Police Officer and Horse, n.d.|n.d.|A uniformed police officer stands with his horse.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Horses|DSC 63"; alt_array[9] = "bps_13431.jpg|bps_13431_s.jpg|Department of Plant and Structures|Police Band, 1930|August 4, 1930|View shows the Police Department band members, sitting on benches and chairs, playing atop the Municipal Building for a WNYC broadcast. The WNYC microphone is placed on the building ledge.|N/A|N/A|Eugene de Salignac|N/A|Music, Musicians, Radio broadcastaing – Municipal Station, Motor Trucks|BPS 13431"; alt_array[10] = "mac_0959.jpg|mac_0959_s.jpg|Municipal Archives Collection|Testing Recruits, ca. 1935|ca. 1935|Two Police Academy recruits wearing athletic clothes are being tested and graded for hand strength by two civilians.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Police Academy, Police Training|MAC 959"; alt_array[11] = "bps_14776.jpg|bps_14776_s.jpg|Department of Plant and Structures|Hoisting Loudspeakers, 1931|November 25, 1931|A man wearing knickers with harlequin-pattern socks and a straw hats stands atop a WNYC radio broadcast truck as another coat-wearing man hands him a loud-speaker. The men are setting up (or taking down) the loudspeakers for an event in front of the New York Supreme Court Building at 60 Centre Street. There is a WNYC microphone at right.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Radio broadcastaing – Municipal Station|BPS 14776"; alt_array[12] = "bps_os_1.jpg|bps_os_1_s.jpg|Department of Plant and Structures|Office Workers, n.d.|n.d.|Clerical employees are shown posing with ledgers and tabulating equipment in the Municipal Building at One Centre Street, Manhattan. One clerk writes in a ledger and another, at left, speaks on a telephone.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Employees, Office machines, Telephone|BPS OS 1"; alt_array[13] = "bps_iv_1699.jpg|bps_iv_1699_s.jpg|Department of Plant and Structures|Police Guarding the Queensboro Bridge, 1917|May 7, 1917|View shows three uniformed police officers at an outpost beneath the Queensboro Bridge. A floodlight and mounted automatic rife is pointed towards the bridge.|During World War I, New York City police officers helped protect vital infrastructure such as the Queensboro Bridge.|N/A|Eugene de Salignac|N/A|Bridges – Queensboro, Employees, Uniformed, Police|BPS IV 1699"; alt_array[14] = "dpw_6437.jpg|dpw_6437_s.jpg|Department of Public Works|Three Elevator Operators, 1943|October 11, 1943|Four uniformed women elevator operators stand beside open elevators at the Criminal Court Building at 100 Centre Street, Manhattan.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Elevators|DPW 6437"; alt_array[15] = "dpw_6438.jpg|dpw_6438_s.jpg|Department of Public Works|Elevator Operators, 1943|October 11, 1943|Seventeen uniformed women elevator operators stand in a line at an elevator bank in the Criminal Court Building at 100 Centre Street, Manhattan.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Elevators, Employees, Uniformed, Buildings – Criminal Court|DPW 6438"; alt_array[16] = "bpq_0293b.jpg|bpq_0293b_s.jpg|Borough President Queens|McCormick-Deering Tractors, 1927|May 16, 1927|Nine identical McCormick-Deering tractors, with operators, are lined up in this view of a Borough President Queens Bureau of Highways facility.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Employees|BPQ 293B"; alt_array[17] = "mac_1946.jpg|mac_1946_s.jpg|Municipal Archives Collection|Repairing Typewriters, n.d.|n.d.|Five men in shirt sleeves sit at a bench repairing typewriters. The location is Storehouse B-53 at New Dock and Water Streets, Brooklyn. The view shows ''ideal light and working conditions.''|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Employees, Buildings – Storehouse B-53|MAC 1946"; alt_array[18] = "wpa_2733-3.jpg|wpa_2733-3_s.jpg|WPA Federal Writers' Project|Feeling No Pain, 1938|January 26, 1938|Still holding his drink, a man wearing a suit sprawls passed-out across a table at the Central Bar and Grill, Third Avenue and 41 st Street, Manhattan.|N/A|N/A|Eiseman|N/A|N/A|WPA 2733-3"; alt_array[19] = "wpa_2643-2.jpg|wpa_2643-2_s.jpg|WPA Federal Writers' Project|Hy Grade Restaurant, 1937|December 14, 1937|Interior view of the ''Hy Grade'' Restaurant at 2285 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, shows uniformed waitress at left serving a man at the counter.|N/A|N/A|Pollard|N/A|Neighborhoods – Manhattan – Harlem, Restaurants|WPA 2643-2"; alt_array[20] = "bps_04299.jpg|bps_04299_s.jpg|Department of Plant and Structures|Painters on Suspenders, 1914|October 7, 1914|Ten bridge painters hang from the 'suspender' wires of the Brooklyn Bridge; the lower Manhattan skyline is in the background. Part of the Brooklyn tower of the bridge is visible at right.|N/A|N/A|Eugene de Salignac|N/A|Bridges – Brooklyn, Painting|BPS 4299"; alt_array[21] = "dep_p-4.jpg|dep_p-4_s.jpg|Department of Environmental Protection|Croton Aqueduct Workers, ca. 1889|ca. 1889|Three dozen working men pose around and atop a cast iron lining intended for shaft no. 30 ( near 149th Street, The Bronx), of the new Croton Aqueduct. The lining measures twelve feet and three inches in diameter and was intended to reinforce the shaft against water and crumbling rock.|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|Water supply – Croton system|DEP P-4"; alt_array[22] = "mac_0217.jpg|mac_0217_s.jpg|Municipal Archives Collection|Typing Class, 1936|1936|View of students (mostly female) in a classroom at the High School of Commerce; each student sits at a typewriter.|N/A|N/A|Ambrose J. Hickey|N/A|Education, High School|MAC 0411"; alt_array[23] = "dsc_149.jpg|dsc_149_s.jpg|Department of Street Cleaning|Street Cleaners' Locker Room, n.d.|n.d.|Three uniformed Department of Street Cleaning men are shown in their locker room. Sprinkler cans labed 'DSC' are lined up atop the lockers. The photograph probably dates between 1900 and 1920.|Print from 5x7 glass negative|N/A|N/A|N/A|Street cleaning, Uniforms and insignia|DSC 149"; alt_array[24] = "wpa_0504-b.jpg|wpa_0504-b_s.jpg|WPA Federal Writers' Project|Village Blacksmith, 1937|1937|Two girls observe a blacksmith at work shoeing a horse at 33 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Young man at left looks at camera.|N/A|N/A|E. M. Bofinger|Federal Writers' Project|Neighborhoods – Manhattan – Greenwich Village, Horses, Signs|WPA 504B"; for(x=0;x