Shoeshining
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Title
Shoeshining
Collection
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art
Names
United States. Works Progress Administration (Sponsor)
Katz, Hyman William (1899-1988) (Artist)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1936 (Approximate)
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division
Subjects
African Americans
Shoes
Shoe shiners
Streets
Tower clocks
Genres
Physical Description
Engravings
Etchings
Extent: Image 9.9 x 7 in.; on paper: 11.5 x 15.9 in.
Extent: 1 print
Signed: H. Katz 1936
Identifiers
Accession number: PR.X.021
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0a528460-fe36-0131-a0a3-58d385a7bbd0
Rights
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. "Shoeshining" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1936. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0a528460-fe36-0131-a0a3-58d385a7bbd0
APA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. (1936). Shoeshining Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0a528460-fe36-0131-a0a3-58d385a7bbd0
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. "Shoeshining" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0a528460-fe36-0131-a0a3-58d385a7bbd0
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