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Children Studying

1940

Harlem, New York City, New York, 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 three young African-American girls reading out of a book written in Hebrew while a boy looks on. A fourth girl studies a Hebrew alphabet. The photograph is signed by the photographer in the bottom right corner.

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Catalog reference: 2010.38.1

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