Image: US National Archive and Records
Administration WPA Records Negative # 15380-D, via Brent McKee, LND.
The magazine rack at Bryant Park's free
open-air library, somewhere between 1934 and 1937, funded and staffed by the WPA.
Among popular mass-market magazines like McCall's, Colliers, The Saturday
Evening Post, and Vogue, are found edgier publications like The Nation,
New Masses, and Soviet Union Today.