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Album of photographs taken by Laura Fitzpatrick

1938-1948

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, 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.

An album containing 350 photographs of or taken by Laura Fitzpatrick. The cover is light-stained wood, with darker stained pieces with metal studs making up the hinges. The cover is painted with a flower and foliage motif around the word [Album] painted in cursive in the middle. In the interior pages of the album are composed of heavy black paper with photographs mounted usually with corner mounts. There are 90 interior pages plus a large class photograph that serves as its own page. Three of the sides are blank, and two of those have corner mounts suggesting photographs were once displayed there. The photographs range in size but are mostly 4" x 5" and 3.5" x 2.5". The photographs were primarily captured by Laura Fitzpatrick and feature her friends, family, community, home life and travel over a decade in Brooklyn and New York City. Many of the photographs have inscriptions written beneath in white.

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Catalog reference: 2016.72.1ab

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