- Created by
- Schwartz, Joe, American, 1913 - 2013
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- 1940s
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.6 x 50.5 cm)
- Caption
- Work Done a Flight Begun - Remembering the Photo League, New York City, 1940's
- Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 210.
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of a white-haired man with a beard, an umbrella salesman, sitting near the bottom of a stoop on St. Mark's Place, reading a newspaper. In the background, a boy prepares to launch a paper airplane.
- Place depicted
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- 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
- 2010.74.155
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Joe Schwartz
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




