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New York, New York. A Harlem newsboy (LOC)

Parks, Gordon,, 1912-2006,, photographer.

 

New York, New York. A Harlem newsboy

 

1943 May.

 

1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.

1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 19.3 x 18.6 cm, on card mount 24.1 x 29.2 cm.

 

Notes:

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Corresponding print Exhibited: "Gordon Parks : The New Tide, 1940-1950" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2018 - Feb. 2019; 2nd venue: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, March - June 2019; 3rd venue: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. - Dec. 2019; 4th venue: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Feb. - April 2020.

 

Subjects:

African Americans--Employment--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950.

Newspaper carriers--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950.

Children--New York (State)--New York--1940-1950.

United States--New York (State)--New York.

 

Format: Nitrate negatives--1940-1950.

Gelatin silver prints--1940-1950.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2002708960

 

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d28519

 

Call Number: LC-USW3- 023996-E

 

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Uploaded on April 23, 2021
Taken sometime in 1943