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Museum object · gelatin silver prints

Time Out for Maintenance Man

1950s

Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California, 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.

Time Out for Maintenance Man - Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California, 1950's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 160. A black-and-white photograph of an elderly man sitting on a stack of papers and smoking a cigarette.

Catalog date
1950s
Recorded places
Olvera Street, Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
Recorded subjects
African American; Photography; Urban life

Sources & collection details

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

Catalog reference: 2010.74.125

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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