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Bedford Stuyvesant stoop

1942

Bedford-Stuyvesant, 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.

Black and white photograph of an unidentified group of people on a stoop by Arthur Leipzig. Most of the group is looking toward the camera. The stone stoop has seven steps and a solid two tier wall on each side in place of handrails. On the left a man is standing on the dirt sidewalk with one foot resting on the second step with a window visible in the background. He is smoking and wearing a dark suit with a black uniform hat. There is a girl seated on the upper tier of the wall behind the man. She is wearing a skirt with button closure and a white head wrap. Her elbows on resting on her knees and she is supporting her head on her closed fists. At the top of the stairs a woman is leaning against the right side of the entranceway.

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Catalog reference: 2017.69.1

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