Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Digital print of a Chicago housing mural by John Pitman Weber
June 2010; printed 2012
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 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.
A color photograph of a housing-themed mural on a brick wall. The mural is made to appear as two white signs surrounded by colorful geometric shapes. The top sign reads "HOUSING / IS / STILL / THE / ISSUE" and below it, in Spanish, it reads "A LA DEFENSA / LA COMUNIDAD [...]” The individual bricks of the wall are visible beneath the paint.
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Catalog reference: 2013.140.30
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