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Recreation in Harlem

  • Writer: Andrew J. Bramlett
    Andrew J. Bramlett
  • Feb 13, 2023
  • 1 min read

This mural by Georgette Seabrooke is located in the Harlem Hospital in New York. Seabrooke made the mural while working for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. The mural was painted over and damaged in a fire, but in 2012 it was finally restored and put back on display.



Image: “Recreation in Harlem by Georgette Seabrooke” by Nadir & Grubman (1937). From the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

 
 
 

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