Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Waiting for the Bus Home - 1st Street - Downtown Tulsa
1969
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, 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.
A sepia toned digital image of two separate pictures of the same group of people. The two pictures are next to each other with no space between them. The image on the right is of a city street in front of a grocery store. Parked cars and street lights are in the foreground. Several people are walking on the side walk. The image on the right is of six people standing on a sidewalk. They are all looking to the right of the image. They are all wearing cold weather clothing. Written below the images is “1/1/30/69 – WAITING FOR THE BUS HOME – 1ST STREET – DOWNTOWN TULSA.”
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Catalog reference: 2012.67.18
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