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Museum object · gelatin silver prints

Lunch Break, and the Pretzel Man Was There

1930

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.

Lunch Break, and the Pretzel Man Was There - New York City Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 146. A black-and-white photograph of a man selling pretzels from his basket on a sidewalk.

Catalog date
1930
Recorded places
New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Recorded subjects
African American; Photography; Urban life

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20

Catalog reference: 2010.74.110

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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