Title

Back steps of apartments in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

Caption

Back steps of apartments in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, April 1941. Creators: Farm Security Administration, Russell Lee.

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Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22B39_180

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

15,8Mb (733,2Kb) / 9,6in x 6,4in / 2867 x 1924 (300dpi)

Keywords

building library politics economics country housing steps color flat photography accommodation poor poverty step political Chicago Illinois apartment location century run down photograph concept recession photo African American African-American B&W 1940s afro-american public library slum slums hardship Forties daily Life United States of America Colour Disrepair black & white black and white B W white and black 20th century Great Depression New York Public Library NYPL American America USA decade New Deal TGN building exterior photograph landscape united states slum housing Heritage Art Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA still image implied racism racial stereotype Schomburg Center for Research Farm Security Administration Administration Farm Security FSA FSA Collection Russell Werner Lee