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"During the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Harlem spread itself before the cameras of Morgan and Marvin Smith like a great tablecloth, and eagerly they went about devouring what it had to offer."

-Gordon Parks Sr.

Jessamine County Natives Morgan and Marvin Smith moved to Harlem and became the house photographers for the Apollo Theatre.

Jessamine County Native
Morgan Smith
Jessamine County Native
Marvin Smith