Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Like Iwo Flag Raising - Interracial working crew, Kingsboro Housing Project, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's
1940s
Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
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Like Iwo Flag Raising - Interracial working crew, Kingsboro Housing Project, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 142. A black-and-white photograph of four men moving a tree. The way they are positioned invokes the photograph of Marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima.
- Catalog date
- 1940s
- Recorded places
- Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Photography; Urban life
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2010.74.108
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection