ABSTRACT

In spring 1951, the photography club of Malverne Junior-Senior High School in Malverne, New York, took a field trip to New York City to walk from Battery Park to 42nd Street while photographing everything in sight. One of the club’s students, David Hollerith Ahl, held no passion for photography and had merely joined the club due to a crush on its sponsor. He would discover a new life-changing hobby that day, however, as the group passed through an area called “Radio Row.” 1