Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Dance of the Wash
1930s
57th 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.
Dance of the Wash - Backyard on 57th Street, Manhattan, New York, 1930's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 4. A black-and-white photograph of clotheslines hanging in an alleyway.
- Catalog date
- 1930s
- Recorded places
- 57th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Domestic life; Photography; Urban life
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: 2010.74.3
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
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