Shoe Shine Boy

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.

Shoe Shine Boy - Eastern Parkway, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1930's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 48. A black-and-white photograph of a boy preparing to shine shoes by pouring shine onto a brush.

Catalog date

1930s

Recorded places

Eastern Parkway, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Children; Labor; Photography; Urban life

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