Asphalt Workers

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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.

A black and white lithograph depicting two asphalt workers working on a city rooftop. One of the men is pictured next to two buckets, laying a sheet of material onto the rooftop, while the other man stands over the hot asphalt mix. Behind them is a cityscape, the facade of a taller building and a power line tower on the left the rooftops of different buildings on the right. Inscribed in pencil just beneath the image is the title [Asphalt Workers] at the left corner and the artist's signature [James L. Wells @40] at the right corner.

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