Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Shine, Shave and Haircut
1940s
Ralph Avenue, 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.
Shine, Shave and Haircut - Next to Kingsboro Housing Project, Ralph Avenue, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 48. A black-and-white photograph of the inside of an African American barbershop.
- Catalog date
- 1940s
- Recorded places
- Ralph Avenue, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Barbershops; Beauty salons (Beauty shops); Hair; Labor; Men; Photography; Urban life
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2010.74.46
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection