About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_0033
  • TitleMonique Smith
  • SummaryPortrait of Monique Smith, a Brooklyn woman of Haitian extraction, with hair in bouffant style, possibly in photographer's studio in Haiti. Verso stamped: "10 Mars 1971. "Photo [illegible], 1591 Rue [illegible]."
  • Date[1971]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black & white
  • Genredigital imagesphotographsportraits
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor: 1971-03-10. Original photograph (4 x 5 in.) digitized on Aug. 29, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Farrah Lafontant at New Lots Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • SubjectHaitian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Women, Black -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).