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Dorothy Marder Collection
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
Dorothy Marder was a photographer and photojournalist, peace activist, queer community member, counselor, and disabilities advocate. Her most extensive photographic work concerned women's peace activism (especially Women strike for Peace), in the New York, area between the late 1960s through the 1980s. Many of her photographs appeared in peace movement publications Marder photographed well-known peace activists, feminists, and political figures of the last quarter of the twentieth century including: Bella Abzug, Joan Baez, David Dellinger, Ron Dellums, Barbara Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Grace Paley, and Gloria Steinem.
The Dorothy Marder Collection contains biographical material, mostly about Dorothy Marder's life after 1970. The largest part of the collection contains Marder's photographs, prints, negatives, contact sheets which cover the U.S. anti-war movement during the Vietnam war era, the women's liberation movement in the 1970s and early 1980s, the anti-nuclear movement of the early to mid-1980s, and the gay and lesbian pride movement of the 1980s-1990s (largely in New York, New York).
Series A contains biographical material by or about Dorothy Marder, writings by Marder, some of the publications in which Marder's photographs appeared, reference materials that Marder collected about peace, women's liberation, gay rights, and disability rights. Series B contains photographic prints arranged according to Marder's own numbering system. The prints are in rough chronological order. Series C contains Marder's master negatives and contact sheets, also arranged according to her own numbering system. Series D contains the memorabilia, t-shirts, and other items from various peace, anti-nuclear, gay pride, and women's rights campaigns.
View finding aid to the Dorothy Marder Collection: http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG226-250/dg233dmarder.htm
Gift of Eve Marder, Efrem Marder, and Elissa Marder, July 2009 [Acc 09A-036].
This collection was processed by Wendy E Chmielewski and Elizabeth Matlock in 2009-2010, with assistance from Chloe Lucchesi-Malone, Elizabeth Reilly, and Jean Turner in Summer, 2010.
Items removed from this collection include:Photographs, negatives, and contact prints (in Photograph Collection), Memorabilia, Posters , T-Shirts, and Political buttons. Items removed to Oversized Collection: Women's Pentagon Action Posters, "Women say NO! to War" Women's Environment and Development Organization little flag, The Strength of Women 1982 Calendar, Cover of Womanews, 1983 (September), Dykes to Watch Out For 1993 Calendar, Photocopy of photographs of Blue Lunden, one by Dororthy Marder, undated.
People
Organization
Subject
- Photographers -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Photojournalists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Lesbians -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Feminists -- United States -- Photographs
- Pacifists -- United States -- Photographs
- Lesbians -- United States -- Photographs
- Gay rights -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources
- Women and Peace -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Demonstrations -- United States -- Photographs
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
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None.
- Copyright to the resources created by Dorothy Marder have been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Use Restrictions
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None.
Collection Inventory
Black and white photographic prints: organized by negative number and chronologically.
Not all people who appear in the photographs are listed. When individuals have been identified by Dorothy Marder or SCPC staff, their names have been noted.
Washington, D.C.
White Plains, New York.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug, Ron Dellums, and Cora Weiss.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug, Ron Dellums, and Cora Weiss.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and Amy Swerdlow.
Danbury, Connecticut.
New York, New York.
Washington, D.C. People include: John Harper and Don Knetzscmar.
Sickle Cell, [New York].
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Amy Swerdlow, U Thant.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug, Connie Hogarth, and Pat Simon.
New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and Percy Sutton.
New York, New York. People include: Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.
New York, New York.
Washington, D.C.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. People include: Daniel Berrigan.
New York, New York. People include: Mary Clark and James Peck.
New York, New York. People include: Cora Weiss.
People include: Daniel Berrigan.
Terrytown, New York. People include: Bill Galvin and Conrad J. Lynn.
Washington, D.C. People include: Ann Pine and Amy Swerdlow.
New York, New York. People include: Linus Pauling and Helen Gahagan Douglas [?].
People include: Minnie Gartley, Amy Swerdlow, and Cora Weiss.
New York, New York. People include: Elizabeth Moos and Dagmar Wilson.
Santa Barbara, California. People include: Mary Clarke and Nora Hockman.
Washington, D.C. People include: Joan Baez, Helen Boston, William Sloane Coffin, and Dick Gregory.
Washington, D.C. People include: Amy Swerdlow.
New York, New York.
Washington, D.C. People include: James Peck.
New York, New York.
Washinton, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug, Connie Hogarth, and Elizabeth Moos.
New York, New York. People include: Gloria Steinem.
New York, New York. People include: Julian Beck, Judith Malina, and Igal Roodenko.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York, New York. People include: Daniel Berrigan and Ralph DiGia.
Washington, D.C. People include: Connie Hogarth.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug.
People include: Grace Paley.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York.
People include: Vinie Burrows, Margaret "Midge" Constanza, Connie Hogarth, Dolores Huerta, and Mildred Scott Olmsted.
New York, New York. People include: Gloria Steinem.
New York, New York. People include: Anna Maria Navarro.
New York, New York. People include: Joan Baez, Gloria Emerson, Connie Hogarth, and Pete Seeger.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug and Elizabeth McAllister.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth.
Washington, D.C. People include: Kay Camp.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York?.
Washington, D.C. People include: Joan Baez, David Dellinger, Daniel Ellsberg, Dick Gregory, David McReynolds, James Peck, Igal Roodenko, and Cora Weiss.
New York, New York.
White Plains, New York [?].
Washington, D.C. People include: Margaret "Midge" Costanza.
People include: Daniel Berrigan.
People include: Ann Davidon[?].
New York, New York. People include: Vinie Burrows and Randall Forsberg [?].
Albany, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and Liz Novick.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug.
Washington, D.C. People include: Margaret "Midge" Constanza, Sarah Diamondstein, and Ethel Taylor.
Houston, Texas. People include: Bella Abzug, Maya Angelou, Kay Camp, Dora Carcano Araojo, Rosalynn Carter, Mary Clarke, Carol Bellamy, Karen Burstein, Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford, Betty Friedan, Lady Bird Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Margaret Mead, Kate Millet, Josephine Pomerance, Jean Stapleton, Gloria Steinem, Amy Swerdlow, Ethel Taylor, and Alice Walker.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York, New York.
New Hampshire. People include: Pete Seeger.
Washington, D.C. People include: Ethel Taylor and Sarah Weddington.
Washington, D.C. People include: James Peck.
Groton, Connecticut.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York, New York. People include: Allen Ginsberg, Grace Paley, and Jim Peck.
Brookhaven, New York. People include: David Dellinger, Connie Hogarth, and Pete Seeger.
New York. People include: Connie Hogarth and Marianne Maloney.
Washington D.C.
Amherst, Massachusetts.
Washington, D.C. People include: Grace Paley.
New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Jane Fonda, Joan Martin, Patsy Mink, May Newberger, Tip O'Neil, Eleanor Smeal, Gloria Steinem, and Helene Weinstein.
New York, New York [?]. People include: Grace Paley and Vera Williams.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Vinie Burrows, and Ethel Taylor.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
Romulus, New York and Waterloo, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Barbara Deming, Toni Fitzpatrick, Blue Lunden, and Mary Quinn.
New York, New York. People include: Grace Paley.
New York, New York. People include: Ralph DiGia and Grace Paley.
New York, New York ?. People include: Betty Friedan, Amy Swerdlow, and Cora Weiss.
Washington, D.C.?. People include: Kay Camp, Rosalynn Carter [?], Ethel Taylor, and Dagmar Wilson.
People include: Helen Boston, Rosalynn Carter, Helen Evelev (?), George McGovern, Elizabeth Moos, Ethel Taylor, and Dagmar Wilson.
People include: Viveca Lindfors.
People include: Grace Paley.
People include: Vinie Burrows.
People include: Joan Baez.
People include: Connie Hogarth.
People include: Amy Swerdlow.
People include Bella Abzug and Kay Camp.
People include: Gloria Steinem.
People include: Ramsey Clark and Connie Hogarth.
People include: Kate Millet.
People include: Daniel Ellsberg.
People include: Pete Seeger, Amy Swerldow [?], and Ethel Taylor.
People include: Ann Davidon [?].
Color prints and negatives (4"x 5")
New York, New York ?. Color prints and negatives (4"x 5")
New York, New York ?. Color prints and negatives (4"x 5")
New York. Color prints and negatives (4"x 5")
New York. Color prints and negatives (4"x 5")
New York, New York. Color prints and negatives (4"x 5")
New York, New York. Color prints and negatives (4"x 5")
New York, New York. Color prints and negatives (4"x 5")
Color prints and negatives (4"x 5"). People include: David McReynolds.
New York, New York. Color prints and negatives (5"x7").
Color prints and negatives (5"x7"). People include: David McReynolds.
Color prints and negatives (5"x7").
New York, New York. Color prints and negatives (5"x7").
Not all people who appear in the negatives, contact sheets, and slides are listed. When individuals have been identified by Dorothy Marder or SCPC staff, their names have been noted.
Washington, D.C. People include: Connie Hogarth.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug.
Washington, D.C. and White Plains, New York.
Washington, D.C. People include: Jacob Javitz (?), Edward Kennedy, and Cora Weiss.
People include: Connie Hogarth.
Westchester, New York.
Westchester, New York.
People include: Elizabeth McAllister.
New York, New York. People include: Amy Swerdlow and Cora Weiss.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and Amy Swerdlow.
Danbury, Connecticut.
New York, New York. People include: Cora Weiss.
Westchester, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and Amy Swerdlow.
Washington, D.C. People include: Connie Hogarth.
Ossining, New York ?.
New York, New York. People include: Cora Weiss and Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and U-Thant.
New York, New York. People include: Cora Weiss.
New York, New York. People include: Cora Weiss.
Eastchester, New York.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug and Connie Hogarth.
Ossining, New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York, New York. People include: Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.
People include: Daniel Ellsberg O'Rourke.
New York (?).
People include: Connie Hogarth.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. People include: Bella Abzug and Daniel Berrigan.
New York, New York. People include: Mary Clarke, Connie Hogarth, and Cora Weiss.
New York, New York. People include: Cora Weiss.
California (?).
White Plains, Westchester, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York.
People include: David Berrigan and Callahan (?).
New York. People include: Bill Galvin and Conrad J. Lynn.
People include: Noam Chomsky.
People include: Amy Swerdlow.
Ossining, New York. People include: Vinie Burrows and Don McLean.
New York. People include: Helen Gahagan Douglas and Ethel Taylor.
New York, New York. People include: Minnie Gartley, Amy Swerdlow, and Cora Weiss.
Irvington, White Plains, and Westchester, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Elizabeth Moos, and Dagmar Wilson.
Santa Barbara, California. People include: Mary Clarke and Margaret "Midge" Constanza.
Washington, D.C. People include: Joan Baez, William Sloan Coffin, Holly Near, Amy Swerdlow, and Cora Weiss.
Washington, D.C. People include: Helen Boston and Amy Swerdlow.
Ossining, New York ?.
Washington, D.C. People include: Connie Hogarth, Elizabeth Moos, and James Peck.
New York, New York.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug, Connie Hogarth, Elizabeth Moos, and Cora Weiss.
Westchester, New York (?). People include: Gloria Steinem.
Washington, D.C. People include: Ralph DiGia, Dick Gregory, and A. Russo.
People include: Pete Seeger.
New York, New York. People include: Julian Beck and Judith Malina.
Washington, D.C. People include: Cora Weiss.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and David Dellinger.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York, New York. People include: Daniel Berrigan.
New York, New York. People include: Vinie Burroughs, Kay Camp, Viveca Lindfors, and Amy Swerdlow.
New York, New York. People include: Julian Beck, Daniel Berrigan, David Dellinger, Ralph DiGia, Allen Ginsberg, and James Peck.
Washington, D.C. People include: Connie Hogarth.
People include: Connie Hogarth.
People include: Connie Hogarth.
People include: Connie Hogarth.
New York (?). People include: Connie Hogarth and Dorothy Marder (?).
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug, Ron Dellums, and Ethel Taylor.
Westchester, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth, Grace Paley, and Judy (?).
People include: Connie Hogarth.
People include: Ramsey Clark and Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, William Sloan Coffin, James Peck, and Cora Weiss.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Vinie Burrows, and George Wald.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug and Marii Hasegawa (?).
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem.
Albany, New York. People include: Karen Burstein and Connie Hogarth.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug, Connie Hogarth, and George Wald (?).
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Ruth Chalmers, Marii Hasegawa. Mildred Scott Olmsted, and Ethel Taylor.
New York, New York. People include: Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin (?), Connie Hogarth, Grace Paley, James Peck, Igal Roodenko, Pete Seeger, and Cora Weiss.
New York (?). People include: Gloria Emerson and Jackie Sharpe.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug and Elizabeth McAllister.
New York, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth and James Peck.
New York, New York.
White Plains, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York. People include: Angela Davis.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York. People include: James Peck.
New York, New York.
New York (?). People include: Frank Wilkinson.
New York. People include: Connie Hogarth and James Peck.
Washington, D.C. People include: Kay Camp, Ethel Taylor, and Dagmar Wilson.
Indian Point, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Ramsey Clark, and Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Noam Chomsky and A. Samuelson (?).
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Dr. Helen Caldicott, and Viveca Lindfors.
New York, New York.
White Plains, New York.
Scarsdale, New York (?). People include: Bella Abzug.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York (?). People include: Bella Abzug.
New York.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. People include: David Dellinger and James Peck.
New York (?).
New York, New York.
New York (?).
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York, New York. People include: Joan Baez, Ralph DiGia, James Peck, and Cora Weiss.
Washington, D.C. People include: Dick Gregory (?) and Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York. People include: Cora Weiss (?).
White Plains, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth (?).
Washington, D.C. People include: Margaret "Midge" Costanza.
Dobbs Ferry, New York ?. People include: Daniel Berrigan.
Washington, D.C. People include: Phillip Berrigan.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and Vinie Burrows.
Groton, Connecticut.
Albany, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Vinie Burrows, Karen Burstein, Margaret "Midge" Costanza, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Connie Hogarth, Gloria Steinem, and Amy Swerdlow.
Washington, D.C. People include: Ann Davidon, Ethel Taylor, and Ted Weiss.
Washington, D.C. People include: Martha Baker, Margaret "Midge" Costanza, Ann Davidon, Mary McGrory, Ethel Taylor, and Edith Villashigo.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York, New York. People include: Ralph DiGia.
New York, New York. People include: Joan Baez, Betty Friedan, Eleanor Smeal (?), and Gloria Steinem.
People include: Vinie Burrows amd Daniel Ellsberg.
Houston, Texas. People include: Bella Abzug, Margie Adam, Maya Angelou, Carol Bellamy, Karen Burstein, Kay Camp, Rosalynn Carter, Shirley Chisholm, Mary Clarke, Margaret "Midge" Costanza, Betty Ford, Betty Friedan, Lady Bird Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Margaret Mead, Kate Millet, Josephine Pomerance, Patricia Schroeder (?), Jean Stapleton, Gloria Steinem, Amy Swerdlow, and Ethel Taylor.
Washington, D.C. People include: Jesse Helms.
New York, New York. People include: Margaret "Midge" Costanza.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, David Dellinger, Connie Hogarth, Ron Kovic, Grace Paley, and Pete Seeger.
New York, New York. People include: Daniel Berrigan, Ralph DiGia, and Grace Paley.
New York, New York.
New Hampshire. People include: James Peck, Pete Seeger, and Benjamin Spock (?).
New York (?).
Washington, Washington D.C. People include: Ethel Taylor and Sarah Weddington.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Florence Kennedy, Gloria Steinem, and Marlo Thomas.
Washington, D.C. People include: Grace Paley.
New York.
Groton, Connecticut.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and Grace Paley.
People include: Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York.
Indian Point (?), New York. People include: Connie Hogarth.
New York, New York.
Washington, D.C. (LA ?). People include: Betty Friedan (?).
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug and Elizabeth McAllister (?).
White Plains, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Connie Hogarth and Grace Paley.
New York, New York. People include: Cora Weiss.
Amherst, Massachusetts. People include: Connie Hogarth and Grace Paley.
New York, New York.
Washington, D.C.
New York. People include: Pete Seesen (?) and Cortiss Lamont (?).
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug and Grace Paley.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug and Grace Paley.
Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem.
New York (?).
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Ramsey Clark, Dorothy Marder, and Grace Paley.
New York (?).
New York, New York.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Joan Baez, and Grace Paley.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug and Grace Paley.
Cherry Hill, New Jersey. People include: Connie Hogarth (?).
New York, New York.
Washington, D.C.
Romulus, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Connie Hogarth, and Grace Paley.
New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug.
New York.
New York, New York ?.
New York, New York ?.
New York, New York. People include: Grace Paley.
People include: Grace Paley.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
Michigan.
New York, New York.
People include: Bella Abzug and Grace Paley.
New York, New York.
New York.
New York (?).
New York (?).
New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
New York, New York.
People include: Connie Hogarth.
Oversize contact sheets. New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, William Sloan Coffin, Daniel Ellsburg, and Cora Weiss.
Oversize contact sheets. New York, New York. People include: Bella Abzug, Betty Frieden, Jean Stapleton, and Gloria Steinem.
Oversize contact sheets. Albany, New York.
Oversize contact sheets. Washington, D.C. People include: Bella Abzug.
Oversize contact sheets. New York, New York. People include: Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin, Connie Hogarth, David McReynolds, Grace Paley, and Pete Seeger.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: Noam Chomsky.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: Judy.
New York (?). Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: Bella Abzug.
Washington, D.C. Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: Jesse Jackson.
New York, New York. Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
New York, New York. Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: David McReynolds and Grace Paley.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: Grace Paley.
New York, New York. Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: Cora Weiss.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: Bella Abzug.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski. Eleanor Smeal, and Amy Swerdlow.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives.
Unumbered & miscellaneous contact sheets negatives. People include: Alix Dobkin, Doris Lessing, and Grace Paley.
Washington, D.C. Negatives only. People include: Pat Schroeder.
Negatives only
Negatives only
Negatives only. New York, New York. People include: Berrigan.
Negatives only
Negatives only
People include: Bella Negatives only. Abzug and Grace Paley.
Color negatives only
Color negatives only
Color negatives only
Color negatives only
Color negatives only. New York, New York.
Color negatives only. New York, New York.
Color negatives only. New York, New York.
Color negatives only. New York, New York.
Color negatives only
Color negatives only
Color negatives only. New York, New York.
Color negatives only
Oversized negatives
Slides Black and White. Washington, D.C.
Slides Black and White. New York, New York.
Slides Black and White. Washington, D.C.
Slides Black and White
Slides Black and White. New York, New York.
Slides color