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Photograph of Hank Pennington

1890s-1910s

Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America

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

A sepia-toned photograph of Hank Pennington taken by the Staley Bros. in Tullahoma, Tennessee. Pennington is captured from the waist up and sitting forward, staring at the camera. He is dressed in a dark color jacket, dark color vest, and light color shirt with a bow tie tucked under the neck lining of the shirt. At the bottom margin of the mat is text on the photography studio [STALEY BROS. / TULLAHOMA]. On the back, the sitter's name written at the top center in pencil [Hank Pennington].

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Catalog reference: 2011.36.132

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