Building with clothesline & clothes - Boston, Mass. - 1969

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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 the corner of two adjacent brick buildings with a line of laundry strung between them. The building on the right shows windows that appear to lead to apartments. The building on the left shows broken windows with jagged remnants of glass attached to the frames. There is a metal fire escape in the corner of the juncture of the two buildings.

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