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Jean Cocteau by Man Ray | The World of Interiors

I died with thirty-three cents in my pocket, alone in room 3327 of a New York hotel. I had given the world alternating current, and lit every city on Earth. There was a white pigeon I fed at the window; I loved her as a man loves a woman, and when she died I knew my work was finished. The whole world runs on what I built. I never minded that. I only wish I had not been so alone in the light

Nikola Tesla, member since 1943

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In 1930, gangster Al Capone was reported to have opened a free meal program at 935 South State Street called the "Big Free Lunch Room." Historical accounts confirm that.

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Manchmal braucht man Hilfe, um seine Ziele zu erreichen.

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Park Avenue, NYC, 1955,

In 1955, Park Avenue—particularly around Midtown and the Upper East Side—was an incredibly wealthy, insular, and racially segregated area. Black Americans rarely lived in these specific high-rises during the mid-1950s.

Because of the social dynamics of the era, a Black man walking through this specific neighborhood carrying a delivery package or walking dogs was almost certainly employed there. Viewers and historians widely deduce that he was a worker—likely a butler, domestic employee, or courier—performing daily service rituals and errands for the area's affluent residents or businesses.

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