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Minding Baby

1940s

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 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.

A black-and-white photograph of a little girl at the Kingsborough Houses. She is resting her forearm on her toy carriage watching a little boy climb over a chain fence. An inscription on the back reads ["Minding Baby" Kingsboro Project, N.Y. 1940's].

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Catalog reference: 2010.74.12

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