Museum object · gelatin silver prints
When a Friend Needs a Friend
1940s
Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
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.
When a Friend Needs a Friend - Kingsboro Housing Project, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 14. A black-and-white photograph of two women working at something with their hands as a young boy looks on.
- Catalog date
- 1940s
- Recorded places
- Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Photography; Urban life
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2010.74.14
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection