(PHOTOGRAPHY) James Van Der Zee Photograph of party activist

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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) James Van Der Zee. Photograph of party activists gathered outside a Harlem Democratic Club. Silver print, 8 x 10 inches, signed by the photographer on verso with his manuscript caption "Martin Healy, Political Club, 1930, Democratic Club" and his inked "G.G.G. Photo Studio" stamp; moderate wear including tack holes and adhesion in lower margin, later sticker on verso. [New York], 1930

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Approximately 30 men and women, most of them Black, are gathered on the sidewalk in front of the Harry C. Perry Association, the Democratic Party club which ran the state's 19th Assembly District in the 1930s. The photograph was taken at 275 Lenox Avenue in Harlem, now Malcolm X Boulevard. The building now houses the Harlem Business Alliance.