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Description: Views of mostly children playing on sidewalks and streets in New York City. One view shows an elderly woman in a New York City street.
Names: Levitt, Helen (Photographer)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1938 - 1959
Library locations: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection; Shelf locator: MFZ (Levitt) 93-6205
Topics: African Americans; Children; Women
Genres: Photographs
Notes: Publications: Many of the images appeared in A way of seeing; photographs of New York, by Helen Levitt. With an essay by James Agee. (1965); Acquisition: Ramona Javitz Collection
Physical Description: Gelatin silver prints; Extent: 18 photographic prints :silver gelatin, b&w ; 18.2 x 27.6 and smaller; Collection stamps, verso. Signed in pencil or ink, verso; Locales, dates, numbers inscribed on some items in pencil, verso. Inscription on one item in ink, verso: "New York, Camera-Leica, Film-Agfa Supreme".
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11744215; TMS Object Number: 91PH083; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): df8e2060-c628-012f-eeb6-58d385a7bc34

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