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Photo, Print, Drawing Color town: a southern black community

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About this Item

Title

  • Color town: a southern black community

Summary

  • Photos show African Americans in Color Town, (now Overtown a section of Miami, Florida). Photographs mostly depict street scenes such as people socializing, walking, playing guitars, playing chess and cards, and doing laundry. Also shown are exteriors of homes, businesses and churches, and portraits of men, women, and children.

Names

  • Waldman, Max, photographer

Created / Published

  • [1947]

Headings

  • -  African Americans--Social life--Florida--Miami--1940-1950
  • -  City & town life--Florida--Miami--1940-1950
  • -  Streets--Florida--Miami--1940-1950
  • -  Poverty--Florida--Miami--1940-1950
  • -  Children--Florida--Miami--1940-1950
  • -  Women--Florida--Miami--1940-1950
  • -  Overtown (Miami, Fla.)--1940-1950

Format Headings

  • Gelatin silver prints--1970-2010.
  • Group portraits--1940-1950.
  • Portrait photographs--1940-1950.

Genre

  • Portrait photographs--1940-1950
  • Group portraits--1940-1950
  • Gelatin silver prints--1970-2010

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Plastic spiral bound album was acquired disbound.
  • -  Purchase; Max Waldman Archives; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:136).
  • -  Purchase; Max Waldman Archives; 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:139).
  • -  Published in: Photographic memory: the album in the age of photography / Verna Posever Curtis. New York, NY : Aperture Foundation, 2011, p. 228.

Medium

  • 1 album (51 gelatin silver prints) ; 28.3 x 24 cm. (album)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 14002 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010646359

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-23984 (digital file of cover)

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Max Waldman," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.639.wald
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-23984 (digital file of cover)
  • Call Number: LOT 14002 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]
  • Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information, see: https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html

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Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Waldman, Max, photographer. Color Town: A Southern Black Community. Miami Overtown Florida, 1947. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010646359/.

APA citation style:

Waldman, M., photographer. (1947) Color Town: A Southern Black Community. Miami Overtown Florida, 1947. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010646359/.

MLA citation style:

Waldman, Max, photographer. Color Town: A Southern Black Community. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2010646359/>.