Man sitting on debris pile - Roxbury, Mass. - 1969

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.

This image depicts an older man sitting on a pile of trash in front of an abandoned building. The man, wearing a dark sweater and pants sits sideways to the camera and gazes past his right shoulder at the viewer. His hands are folded in his lap. He sits on a pile of trash including old cans and bottles, rocks, boards, wires, and plastic bags. In the background is a large abandoned brick building with some windows boarded over, others are open black rectangles in the brick facade. To the right of the building is a tall brick wall, above which is an elevated train track with a train going past.

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