Percy Loomis Sperr (P.L. Sperr) (1890–1964) was an early 20th century New York City photographer. He is most widely known for his street photography of New York City that was done under contract for the

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from the early 1920s until the early 1940s. During those two decades, he took 30,000 to 45,000 photographs of the five boroughs of New York. His favorite subjects were his home borough of

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and the many harbors of New York.

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* Smith-Peter, Susan (2021). To See a City: Percy Loomis Sperr and the Total Photographic Documentation of New York City, 1924-45. Blog at the Gotham Center for NYC History, CUNY Graduate Center. https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/lg4t4th8vfvm6xrzgefg5jjje3v0vm {{DEFAULTSORT:Sperr, Percy Loomis 1890 births 1964 deaths 20th-century American photographers Photographers from New York City Street photographers