Museum object · gelatin silver prints
On Every Corner, a Gum Machine
1930s
Bronx, New York City, New York, 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.
On Every Corner, a Gum Machine - Bronx, New York, 1930's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 150. A black-and-white photograph of a young boy working a gum machine while his mother watches over his shoulder.
- Catalog date
- 1930s
- Recorded places
- Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Children; Photography; Urban life
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2010.74.113
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection