The Unhappy Faces of Taxpayers in New York in 1944

By Deb Street

This series of photos are candid portraits of tax payers at an Internal Revenue information center in 1944 New York, taken by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt with a telephoto lens from around 40 feet away from his subjects.These shots reaffirm the old adage that the more things change, the more they remain — for better or for worse — very much the same.

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H/T Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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