Box 1

Scope and Contents 50 color and black and white photographs taken by Jamel Shabazz. Inspired by the photographic documentation of African American communities by James Van Der Zee and Leonard Freed, these photographs represent urban street fashion primarily in Brooklyn and Manhattan between 1980 and 2010. Most photographs have a date and location noted on verso. Locations include Harlem, Soho, Lower East Side, downtown Brooklyn, Flatbush and Ft. Greene.(The above scope note was copied from a...