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Museum object · gelatin silver prints

Westside Sisters

1940s

12th 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.

Westside Sisters - 12th Street, Manhattan, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 157. A black-and-white photograph of two nuns crossing 12th Street in Manhattan.

Catalog date
1940s
Recorded places
12th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, 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: 2010.74.122

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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