Valley of Ashes
The "valley of ashes," a sprawling refuse dump located in New York City during the 1920s. The dump was made famous in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. Today, the area is in Queens.
- Date
- 1924-07-01
- Photographer / author
- New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Engineering Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation (Photographer)
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,177 × 3,177 pixels
Public domain
Reason: public domain: US.
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Credit line
"Valley of Ashes" (1924-07-01). New York (N.Y.). Bureau of Engineering Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation (Photographer), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valley_of_Ashes.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 159310.
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