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Southern Trailer Home • South Carolina

1965; printed 1998

South Carolina, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photograph of a young man and a television in a darkened room in a trailer home in South Carolina by the photographer Leonard Freed. The young man stands to the extreme left of the frame and wears a patterned white shirt. His left hand is raised to his jaw, partly obscuring his face. To the extreme right of the photo is a television, turned on and showing a woman on the screen. The date and place the photo was taken are inscribed on the back along with the photographer's stamp.

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Catalog reference: 2009.10.8

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