Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Marion Palfi slide collection contains 135 full-color, 35-millimeter slides of photographs taken of New York, (N.Y.) and locations throughout the American South in 1945 before the end of World War II. The photographs capture a diverse spectrum of the population and of American life toward the end of the Second World War. The collection features African American servicemen in uniform, as well as photographs of African Americans working in a wartime factory plant. New York's...

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Original slidebox labeled: "Merchant Marine, Soldier, etc. 33 + 38 + 50"

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Original slidebox labeled: "Sydenham, School entrance, Home in suburbs 39-48 (incl.)"

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Original slidebox labeled: "City college 39-48"

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Original slidebox labeled: "Children work, poor housing, South"

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Original slidebox labeled: "Church-school outside, meneal [sic] work - laborers, small church school - in South (one exp), South"

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Original slidebox labeled: "P. close up I, thumbing II"

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Original slidebox labeled: "Children playground, Recreation facilities, 39-48"

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Original slidebox labeled: "working on the land: father + son all ages +, barber for whites only, South, Negro farming"

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Original slidebox labeled: "P. has skilled job 37, Plant factory or war 36, Negros in war plant"