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ABOVE TOWN.(Eugene de Salignac)(Brief article)
No one in my family remembered much about my great-grandfather de Salignac. He was divorced from my great-grandmother soon after 1900, and lived the rest of his life alone, in New York City. My mother had a vague idea that he was a stockbroker; as a child, I never even saw a picture of him. So we were surprised when, a few years ago, we received a call from Michael Lorenzini, of the Municipal Archives of the City of New York. He had been examining a large collection of images--nearly twenty thousand glass negatives and a hundred and thirteen scrapbooks of prints--when he realized that they had all been shot by a single unknown photographer, Eugene de Salignac.
De Salignac, it turned out, had worked for the Department of Bridges (later the Department of Plant and Structures) from 1903 to 1934. Vast reaches of infrastructure were laid down in those years, and his job was to provide a ...
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...Sports Network Team Founded: 1946-47 - New York Knickerbockers (BAA) Team History: 1949-Present - New York Knickerbockers (NBA) Team Colors: Orange...Madison Square Garden Two Pennsylvania Plaza New York, NY 10001 (212) - 465-6000 Opened...
