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This photograph is taken from the perspective of someone looking down into the air shaft of a Harlem apartment building. Half of the air shaft is cast in shadow; all of the windows on the lighted half of the air shaft are left open. The dynamic…

Satirically titled "Harlem Backyard," this photograph possibly depicts the bottom of an air shaft of a Harlem apartment building. Two, white sheets dry on a clothesline at the center of the shaft. A line of white shirts hang at a lower altitude above…

This photograph places the viewer in the position of a person looking into a bedroom from a hallway. In the foreground, there is the opened bedroom door, the frame of the door, and decorative wooden elements above the doorway. The bedroom is lit by a…

A group of boys play in and outside of a boarded up tenement building. One boy, his face cast in shadow, looks down from the second story window at the boys on the first story ledge below. Both of these boys face the window, which is slatted with…

This photograph features a group of women at a church service. The woman at the far left is leaning on a wooden partition as she gazes directly at the viewer; her look of confusion might be in reference to the presence of the photographer. The woman…

This photograph features an unoccupied apartment building in Harlem. The lower storefront is plastered over by various posters for advertisements. Every single window is uniformly boarded up by wood except for the second and third story windows at…

A clothes form, with a floral print dress and solid colored vest, is seen in profile at the center of the photograph. Besides the clothes form sits a large, wooden barrel with various types of fabric stacked on top; other miscellaneous objects lie on…

A young woman sits on an armchair with her legs drawn up underneath her and her arms outstretched onto the armrests at her side. She is dressed in a fitted suit jacket and skirt with a large floral corsage tucked into her lapel. Her position and…

As indicated by the inscription"HD," this photograph is part of a documentary series focusing on the social and economic conditions of Harlem in the 1930s, made as part of a project by the Feature Group, a production unit of photographers from the…

An actor prepares backstage before a performance at the Lafayette Theater. He is dressed in full, 19th century military regalia that is adorned with cartoonish epaulettes and wrist cuffs. The actor leans with his back against a concrete wall and…