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Museum object · gelatin silver prints

Look Back the Tail Ends Here

1940s

26th Street, Manhattan, 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.

Look Back the Tail Ends Here - 26th Street, Manhattan, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 213. A black-and-white photograph of a cat standing on an open window sill and looking back at the camera.

Catalog date
1940s
Recorded places
26th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Recorded subjects
African American; Domestic life; Photography; Urban life

Sources & collection details

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗

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

Catalog reference: 2010.74.158

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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