Small town Harlem / Saul. – Historic Print
(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.)
Description
Step back in time with Small town Harlem / Saul., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Small town Harlem / Saul.
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Where many views of Harlem from this period emphasize dense brick blocks, this lithograph turns to a street of modest clapboard houses, a contrast the title, "Small town Harlem," makes explicit. The name suggests the artist saw the neighborhood as a village within the city, a place of everyday domestic life for African American residents. The print dates to 1940 and carries the stamp of the New York City branch of the WPA Art Project, the federal Depression-era program that employed artists to make prints and paintings. Its pencil signature and dated stone reflect the careful, multi-step process of lithography.
| Created / published | 1940 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 28.7 x 35.9 cm. (image), 34.1 x 40.7 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1940. |
| Notes | Stamped in lower left corner: New York City WPA Art Project. Signed and titled in pencil; dated on stone lower right. Paper watermarked lower left corner: RIVES. No. G-6182. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999. Unprocessed in DLC/PP-1999:160.170 |
| Subjects | African Americans--Structures--New York (State)--1940. Cities & towns--New York (State)--1940. Streets--New York (State)--1940. Clapboard siding--New York (State)--1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,692 × 3,821 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220121 |
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