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Museum object · gelatin silver prints

Street Musicians

1940s

Kentucky, 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.

Street Musicians - East 6th Street, Kentucky, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 74. A black-and-white photograph of street musicians playing a guitar, string bass, and third unseen instrument on the sidewalk.

Catalog date
1940s
Recorded places
Kentucky, United States, North and Central America
Recorded subjects
African American; Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography; 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: 2010.74.67

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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