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Flashback: 14 Photos Of Harlem, From 1934 to 1958

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Jen Carlson

Published Jul 6, 2011

Modified Jul 6, 2011

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Baseball player Satchel Paige, looking dapper, lighting his cigarette while sitting on front bumper of large car outside poolroom in Harlem, 1941.

 

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Published Jul 6, 2011

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From the Globetrotters to socialites to Satchel Paige... click through for a look back at Harlem, from 1934 through 1958. (Just sixty-one years after being annexed to New York City in 1873!)

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