A compelling archive of vernacular photography compiled by a multi-racial family documenting life during the 1970's, centered around their apartment in what we believe to be the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, the largest housing project in North America. The views provide a glimpse firmly at odds with the bleak image of housing projects prevalent in the American imagination.

The archive is almost entirely visual, with no notation adding specific names or places, though interior layout of the apartment and a handful of views of a courtyard playground support the location provided to us by our source for these, a book and paper scout active in Queens.

[Photo Albums] : [Affordable Housing] : [Architecture] : [Interiors]. [Snapshot Archive of a Family Living in the Queensbridge Houses]. [New York]: [ca. 1970's]. Five uniform commercial photo albums. Each approximately 12" x 10." Blue vinyl over boards, with "ALBUM' in gilt lettering to fronts, around a metal spiral binding holding a total of 39 adhesive-coated card leaves with plastic overlays with about 350 color snapshot and Polaroiod prints mounted to rectos and versos. A couple of prints appear perished from mountings, otherwise all near fine.