Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Finger Measuring
1930s
Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America; Crown Heights, 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.
Finger Measuring - Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, 1930's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 79. A black-and-white photograph of boys playing marbles at the Kingsborough Houses. An inscription on the verso reads ["FINGER MEASUREMENTS" - 1940's at Kingsboro Housing VINTAGE].
- Catalog date
- 1930s
- Recorded places
- Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America; Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Children; Housing; Photography; Play; Urban life
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2010.74.71
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection