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Museum object · gelatin silver prints

So This is New York

1930s

42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

So This is New York - 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York, 1930's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 154. A black-and-white photograph of a busy Manhattan street. In focus, an older woman in a dress and hat. She looks past the camera at something in the distance.

Catalog date
1930s
Recorded places
42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Recorded subjects
African American; Photography; Urban life

Sources & collection details

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20

Catalog reference: 2010.74.117

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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