Events in New York: reception for Marian Anderson, 1940s, including Anderson signing autographs; dancers, musicians, and spectators, both African American and white, at a Calypso dance, Irving Place, 1940s, including Pearl Primus among the dancers; Gennaro Festival, 1946, including views of the lights, crowds, vendors, the San Gennaro shrine, men and a boy in tuxedoes in a restaurant, children dancing, a singer, African American girls with balloons, hotdog and soda.
Views of the photographer Weegee: Weegee's wedding to Margaret Atwood; Weegee, Maurice Sievan, and Wilma Wilcox at Wilma's, 1940s[?]; Weegee with a Bolex, in Washington Square, 1946 and at San Gennaro Festival; Marjorie Engler and Weegee with a Bolex filming miniatures; book parties for Weegee at Sammy's in the Bowery and at Earl Wilson's, including views of Dorothy Thompson, Maxim Kopf, Bernie Green, Margie Hart, Doris Lilly, George Ratke, Karen Ratke, Sanford Gerard, Sherman Billingsley, Mr. Mills of Brentano's, Sashe Hammond, Hans Richter, Fanny Hurst, "uptown guests," barflies, servicemen, and security with a bum; Weegee photographing the filming of "The Naked City."
Street scenes, New York City: storefronts, including cigar store with wooden Indian, porkstore and Kosher meat market, hardware store, junk store, newstand, and a store called "Mythology"; a hotdog vendor, pretzel lady, fruit vendors, bootblack, and missionaries with organs, and a dog having portrait drawn by street artist; people, including African American men in Bryant Park, checker players and spectators, a family on Cherry Street, a sailor and son, both in sailor outfits, family having a picnic, people on street and stoops in "San Juan Hill," people on the elevated, 3 musicians under a street light, one wearing a lei, men advertising with signs and sandwich boards, "gentlemen of leisure" at Mulberry bend, men outside employment agency; boys ready for a swim, children playing ; horses and wagons; laundry hanging out; a church, row of homes titled "Suburbia," sculpture in Straus Park; elevated tracks and Chrysler building, Woolworth building; audience at Lewiston Stadium concert series; men and a little girl on benches in front of Washington Square restroom; looking toward Trinity Church; the tugboat "Milton".
Views in Massachusetts and Maine: Serge Koussevitzky, wife, niece and Howard Shanet; people in Nantucket, 1946, including African American shoe-shine boy, older lady with hotdog, and others, and a chair made of driftwood; diver in suit, Monhegan Island, Maine, 1951, "Rescue of St. Christopher."