Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Miss America
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.
Miss America - Patriotic Gathering, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 16. A black-and-white photograph of a young African American girl with arms crossed looking into the camera.
- Catalog date
- 1940s
- Recorded places
- Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Children; Photography; Urban life
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2010.74.19
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection