Department of Motor Vehicles
Collection of Photographic Chauffeur's Licenses belonging to Mike De Prisco, a Lifelong Driver and Williamsburg, Brooklyn Native, 1924-67
Silver prints affixed to printed license cards (14)
Each with De Prisco's information, handwritten or typed, and the date of issuance on recto.
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A collection of fourteen New York City chauffeur’s licenses, dating from 1924 to 1967, documenting the working life of a single man over more than four decades. Each license bears...
A collection of fourteen New York City chauffeur’s licenses, dating from 1924 to 1967, documenting the working life of a single man over more than four decades. Each license bears an affixed photographic portrait, collectively forming an extraordinary record of aging, identity, and the passage of time. The licenses also illustrate the increasingly bureaucratic use of the photographic medium during the twentieth century, when photography became an essential tool for identification, regulation, and record-keeping.