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Abstract

Depictions of African Americans, mostly living in Washington, D.C. and New York City during the early 1940s to the 1960s, though mainly from the 1940s and 1950s, consisting of individual and group portraits of young children, and a reflected portrait of a woman in a mirror (1942); and candid shots and views of children at play or in their domestic surroundings, a government charwoman at home and at her job (1942), a Detroit, Michigan, couple on their way to church (1950), church services (1942), and a mother and her family meeting with a poverty board representative (1967).

Dates / Origin

Date created: 1942

Library locations

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

Shelf locator: Sc Photo Portfolio (Parks, G.)

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