View of Lenox Avenue, Harlem, at 135th Street, showing businesses, pedestrians and shoe-shine stand, March 23, 1939
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Title
View of Lenox Avenue, Harlem, at 135th Street, showing businesses, pedestrians and shoe-shine stand, March 23, 1939
Collection
Schomburg Photographs and Prints subject collections: Street scenes
Harlem
Harlem, 1930s
Small businesses, including a billiard hall, clothing store, grocers, a newsstand and shoe shine
Names
Federal Art Project (New York, N.Y.) (Sponsor)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1939-03-23
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Street Scenes
Subjects
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Business enterprises -- New York (N.Y.)
African Americans -- Clothing & dress -- New York (N.Y.)
African Americans -- Social life -- New York (N.Y.)
Commercial streets -- New York (N.Y.)
Storefronts -- New York (N.Y.)
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Physical Description
Extent: 26 x 21 cm.
Languages
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15580587
Archives ID: 532319
Archives EAD ID: 3381188
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 001e41e0-c6e9-012f-76c4-3c075448cc4b
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "View of Lenox Avenue, Harlem, at 135th Street, showing businesses, pedestrians and shoe-shine stand, March 23, 1939" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1939. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/001e41e0-c6e9-012f-76c4-3c075448cc4b
APA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1939). View of Lenox Avenue, Harlem, at 135th Street, showing businesses, pedestrians and shoe-shine stand, March 23, 1939 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/001e41e0-c6e9-012f-76c4-3c075448cc4b
Chicago/Turabian Format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "View of Lenox Avenue, Harlem, at 135th Street, showing businesses, pedestrians and shoe-shine stand, March 23, 1939" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/001e41e0-c6e9-012f-76c4-3c075448cc4b
Wikipedia citation
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