Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Thinking of Home
ca. 1939
42nd Street, Manhattan, 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.
Thinking of Home - 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York, 1939 Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 185. A black-and-white photograph of a sailor mailing a letter on a New York sidewalk.
- Catalog date
- ca. 1939
- Recorded places
- 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Military; Photography; Urban life; World War II
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: 2010.74.137
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
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