- Created by
- Schwartz, Joe, American, 1913 - 2013
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- 1940s
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (26.7 x 33.7 cm)
- Caption
- Suspicious - Kingsboro Housing Project, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's
- Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 156.
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of two older women at the Kingsborough Houses glancing over the back of a bench to look at the camera. There are several inscriptions on the rectoreading "SUSPICIOUS", "What's a nice Jewish boy doing mit a schvacher?" and
- KINGSBORO HOUSING PROJECT "IN TWOS." On the verso is ["SUSPICIOUS" NEG #78 BENCH SERIES, K.H.P., BKLYN, 1940's].
- Place depicted
- Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Housing
- Photography
- Urban life
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joe Schwartz and Family
- Object number
- 2010.74.120
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Joe Schwartz
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




