[Working People, Buffalo, N.Y. Joseph Kemp] – Antique Print
![[Working People, Buffalo, N.Y. Joseph Kemp], [1978] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/13/132ceb430c26-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Working People, Buffalo, N.Y. Joseph Kemp]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Working People, Buffalo, N.Y. Joseph Kemp]
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Joseph Kemp's 1978 gelatin silver print belongs to his *Working People* series, a group of studies of steel and auto plant workers in Buffalo, New York. The record identifies its subjects as African American laborers, which places the picture within the city's industrial workforce at a time when its mills and assembly lines still anchored local employment. Buffalo's steel production, centered on the large plants along Lake Erie and in nearby Lackawanna, along with its auto manufacturing, had supplied jobs for generations of workers, and the late 1970s were the start of a long decline in those industries. Pictures like this one record the people behind that economy as well as the machinery.
| Created / published | [1978] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Notes | Part of the Working People" series. Studies of steel and auto plant workers |
| Subjects | African Americans--Employment--New York (State)--Buffalo--1970-1980. Laborers--New York (State)--Buffalo--1970-1980. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,316 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-199064 |
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