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Museum object · gelatin silver prints

Local Politicians

1940s

Brownsville, 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.

Local Politicians - Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 189. A black-and-white photograph of politicians addressing a crowd from a box draped in American flags and an image of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Catalog date
1940s
Recorded places
Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Recorded subjects
African American; Photography; Politics; Urban life

Sources & collection details

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗

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

Catalog reference: 2010.74.141

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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