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Weegee's photograph of Mulberry Street Café is segmented by elemental categories. There is the sign that takes up almost half of the photograph, and below it is the cafe. There are two conversations going on; participants of both conversations are oblivious to the other conversation and the little girl whose speculating. The man passing by is alone and ignores everyone, as he passes by with his head facing directly forward. The gathering inside the café …

…graduation dance. There was however, any boy brave enough to ask a girl with short hair for a dance, even though she wore her pretty little Sunday dress. There's a dance contest and she badly wants to compete; she knows she could move like no other girl with long hair. Her fairy godmother comes to her rescue. The mother is satisfied by the weak trace of a smile that forms on Lisa's pretty little face.