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Digital image of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

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Iooss, Walter Jr., American, born 1943

Place

Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Kelli, Legends Ball, Jersey City, June 1995

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Gaskin, Gerard H., Trinidadian American, born 1965

Caption

"The balls are a celebration of black and Latino urban gay life. They were born in Harlem out of a need for black and Latino gays to have a safe space to express themselves. Balls are constructed like beauty and talent pageants. The participants work to redefine and critique gender and sexual identity through an extravagant fashion masquerade. Women and men become fluid, interchangeable points of departure and reference, disrupting the notion of a fixed and rigid gender and sexual self. My images try to show a more personal and intimate beauty, pride, dignity, courage, and grace that have been painfully challenged by mainstream society. All of this happens at night in small halls in cities all over the country. These photographs, taken in New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, and Washington, D.C., show us different views of these spaces as they are reflected in the eyes of house and ball members who perform what they wish these cities could be." – Gerard H. Gaskin

Place

Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

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Gaskin, Gerard H., Trinidadian American, born 1965

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Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Photographed BY

Gaskin, Gerard H., Trinidadian American, born 1965

Place

Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Photograph of Mae & Joel Reeves outdoors

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Unidentified

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Mizpah, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Photographic print of four men and one woman

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Unidentified

Place

Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Photographic print of Sam Cooke and Betty Jo Spyropulos at Club Harlem

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Unidentified

Place

Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

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Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

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Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

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Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

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Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

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Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

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Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Created by

Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

Place

Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Created by

Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

Place

Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Created by

Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

Place

Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Created by

Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

Place

Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Created by

Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

Place

Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Created by

Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

Place

Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Created by

Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

Place

Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Created by

Hine, Lewis Wickes, American, 1874 - 1940

Place

Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Created by

Schwartz, Joe, American, 1913 - 2013

Caption

Cards Among Boulders - Heavy duty transporting, New Jersey & Hudson River, 1930's, Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 123.

Place

Hudson River, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America

Panoramic photographic print of D Company, 369th regiment at Camp Merritt

Created by

Unidentified

Caption

Corporal Lawrence McVey served with the 369th Infantry Company D during World War I, fighting in the Battles of Champagne-Marne Defensive, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, D’Afrique and Calvin Defensive Sectore. Due to racial tension within the US Army, the 369th Infantry Regiment was assigned to the French Army for the duration of US involvement in World War I. Formed from the 15th New York National Guard Regiment and nicknamed the “Harlem Hellfighters,” the 369th was the first African American regiment to reach the battlefields of World War I and the first Allied troops to reach the banks of the Rhine. Upon completion of the 369th’s service in the war, the regiment had spent 191 days in combat, the longest of any American regiment. In appreciation for their actions in the Maison-en-Champagne campaign, the 369th was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for acts of bravery in conflicts against the enemy. In addition to this honor, 171 individual members of the 369th Regiment were awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. Corporal McVey was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Purple Heart for bravely leading his squad in an attack against a nest of machine guns at Sechault, September 29, 1918. The 369th Regiment finished their service in Europe and returned to the US in February 1919.

Place

Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America