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[2 African American women in front of bldg., New Orleans, La.] – Antique Wall Art

[2 African American women in front of bldg., New Orleans, La.] — historic photograph
[2 African American women in front of bldg., New Orleans, La.]. Historic photograph from the New Orleans collection.

(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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[2 African American women in front of bldg., New Orleans, La.]

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Two Black women stand before a building in New Orleans in this photograph, which the Library of Congress dates to about 1925. The record does not name the women or the specific building, so the picture's value lies mainly in what it shows of ordinary urban life in the period. In the 1920s New Orleans was a major port and a center of Black cultural and working life, and street-level portraits like this one, taken outside homes and workplaces, preserve how people presented themselves in their everyday surroundings during those years.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[ca. 1925]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,226 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139580

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