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Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935

Jack Ponder injured

Jack Ponder, a forty-year-old man of unknown race, was injured “while walking” at Lenox Ave and 129th Street, hospital staff recorded. Dr Payne attended Ponder at Harlem Hospital at 3:30 AM, so he was likely injured sometime after 3:00 AM. Thomas Brown was also injured, and James White assaulted, at the same place and treated by Payne at the same time. Alice Mitchell and Hugh Young had been injured by flying glass at that intersection two hours earlier.

The Hospital Admission record described Ponder's injury as a "laceration of right ear," the only wound to the ear among those reported as injured during the disorder. The result of the physician’s treatment, whether Ponder was admitted to the hospital or went home, was not recorded.

Ponder appears only in the Hospital Admission record, which did not include information his race. The address recorded for him, 40 West 110th Street, did not exist (that side of 110th Street is Central Park).

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"Hospital Admissions, 19-20 March 1935," Subject Files, Box 167, Folder 5 (Roll 76), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).