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Museum object · gelatin silver prints

Waiting for a Street Car

1950s

Los Angeles, California, 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.

Waiting for a Street Car - Los Angeles, California, 1950's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 157. A black-and-white photograph of two nuns standing on the curb, waiting for a street car.

Catalog date
1950s
Recorded places
Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
Recorded subjects
African American; Catholicism; Photography; Religion; Urban life

Sources & collection details

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

Catalog reference: 2010.74.121

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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