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Rebecca Lepkoff: 1930s New York City Photographer
Monday, September 8th, 2008

Since Jacob Riis first took photos there, artists and reformers have used the Lower East Side to make social statements. In the late 1930s, a young photographer named Rebecca Lepkoff simply went out into the streets and took pictures of the people she saw. Watch a video about the photographer.

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