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A Night Club Map of Harlem

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Originally published in a 1932 issue of Manhattan Magazine, “
A Night Club Map of Harlem” plots out points of interest and places to be during the NYC neighborhood’s heyday. The painstakingly-detailed illustration is the work of Elmer Simms Campbell, the first African-American cartoonist to be published in national publications like The New Yorker, Esquire, and Cosmopolitan.

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