Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Suspicious
1940s
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 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.
A black-and-white photograph of two older women at the Kingsborough Houses glancing over the back of a bench to look at the camera. There are several inscriptions on the rectoreading "SUSPICIOUS", "What's a nice Jewish boy doing mit a schvacher?" and KINGSBORO HOUSING PROJECT "IN TWOS." On the verso is ["SUSPICIOUS" NEG #78 BENCH SERIES, K.H.P., BKLYN, 1940's].
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Catalog reference: 2010.74.120
