Journalist and writer Henry Alsberg (1881–1970) was founding director of this New Deal program that employed some 10,000 out-of-work Americans during the Great Depression. Its writers, including those above from New York, interviewed people of all stripes, including some who claimed to have known Billy the Kid. (Left: Library of Congress’ Right: New York City Municipal Archives )
Left: Library of Congress’ Right: New York City Municipal Archives