Object Details
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph featuring a man selling pies out of a window in Harlem. The man is pictured leaning out an open window with a striped awning above and a hand-lettered sign below reading [PEACE / HomeCooked Meals / 10 & 15¢]. The man wears a light colored apron over a light colored shirt and holds a small pie raised in his right hand, while his left leans on the window sill. The print is signed by the photographer on the front and inscribed with the title, date, and other details on the back.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Aaron Siskind, American, 1903 - 1991
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Date
- ca. 1937; printed 1981
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 10 7/8 × 7 3/4 in. (27.6 × 19.7 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 13 7/8 × 10 13/16 in. (35.3 × 27.4 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
