Apr 1—Jul 15, 2021
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Throughout the twentieth century, Harlem has been regarded as a beacon of African-American history and culture. Sites such as the Apollo Theater, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Malcolm X Corner, at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue, serve as popular postcard images that represent significant places and moments in this community.
Today, Harlem continues to evolve as a center of history and culture. Every day, changes are witnessed by its residents and experienced by tourists and visitors from all over the world. Harlem Postcards, an ongoing project, invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, and creative production.
Harlem Postcards: June 2021 is available as a digital postcard to be downloaded for free and shared.
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Unknown Photographer
View of researchers using the Schomburg Collection, when it was the 135th Street Branch Library Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints, as it looked in 1938, with Catherine A. Latimer, reference librarian of the collection, in left background, 1938
Gelatin silver print, 8 ¼ x 9 7/8 in. (21 x 25 cm); black and white
Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Camilo J. Vergara
Harlem, 1970
35mm color photograph, Dimensions variable
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Camilo J. Vergara Photograph Collection. LC-DIG-vrg-12522
John Vachon,
Harlem July–August 1949, 1949
Acetate negative, 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ in. (5.7 x 5.7 cm)
John Vachon for Look magazine. Museum of the City of New York. X2011.4.11813.548