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James Van der Zee, Black History Month 2020.
Born in 1886, James Van der Zee migrated to Harlem from from Lenox Massachusetts in 1906. A gifted youth, he took an early interest in music and photography building a dark room in his parents home to develop the many photographs of the residents of Harlem.