Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Get a Shine, a Newspaper, Hire a Cab
1939
42nd and Broadway, Manhattan, 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.
Get a Shine, a Newspaper, Hire a Cab - 42nd Street and Broadway, New York, 1939 Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 52. A black-and-white photograph of a sidewalk featuring a newsstand, hack stand, and shoe-shine stand.
- Catalog date
- 1939
- Recorded places
- 42nd and Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Photography; Urban life
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Catalog reference: 2010.74.50
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection