Title: Street in Negro section, Baltimore, Maryland
Date: July 1938
Photographer: Sheldon Dick
Location: Baltimore, Maryland. The Library of Congress record identifies the Harlem Hi-Hat storefront at 240 N. Bond Street and the woman seated on the bench as being in the 1600 block of E. Fayette Street.
Format: Photograph / 35 mm film negative
Collection: Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017747209
Call Number: LC-USF33-020021-M5 [P&P], LOT 1364
Rights: No known restrictions. The FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives collection is in the public domain and available for use and reuse.

Historical Context:
Created in Baltimore in July 1938, Sheldon Dick's photograph documents everyday life and the built environment in Black Baltimore. The image preserves a neighborhood streetscape—residents, storefronts, sidewalks, buildings, and public space—during an era in which racial segregation and discriminatory housing practices profoundly shaped where Black Baltimoreans could live and invest.

UAC Interpretation:
For Urban Atlas Collective, this photograph functions as more than an image of the past; it is spatial evidence. The people, businesses, buildings, and street environment document how Black life occupied and animated Baltimore's urban landscape. Read alongside historic maps, housing records, planning documents, and contemporary photography, records like this help UAC connect policy to place and place to lived experience

Original Source: Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017747209/