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Work Done a Flight Begun

1940s

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 white-haired man with a beard, an umbrella salesman, sitting near the bottom of a stoop on St. Mark's Place, reading a newspaper. In the background, a boy prepares to launch a paper airplane.

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Catalog reference: 2010.74.155

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