Meet Miss Subways
Author: Amy Zimmer
Publisher:
Published: 2013-02-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780983062233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For thirty-five years, New York City subways and buses featured posters with the pretty face and brief biography of local career girls--winners in the Miss Subways contest. Who were these women? A fine art photographer and a journalist tracked down over 146 posters and met 41 Miss Subways in person, interviewing them about their lives since the contest and photographing them at home. The result is a lost archive of a New York City phenomenon and a celebration of the lives of regular women told in their own words and through personal memorabilia"--Jacket