See-Saw with Grandpa

Source catalog description

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See-Saw with Grandpa - Kingsboro, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 19. A black-and-white photograph of children at the Kingsborough Houses on a seesaw. A man squats at the fulcrum point of one seesaw to manage the difference in children's weights.

Catalog date

1940s

Recorded places

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Children; Families; Housing; Photography; Play; Urban life

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