Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Indoor portrait of a biblical scene
1948 - 1970s
Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
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 man and a woman in a biblical scene. The man, left, is dressed as an angel in a light robe and wings with a halo. He is holding a horn in his right hand. He is standing beside two bales of hay which the woman, right, is sitting on. She is dressed in a blanket which covers part of her head and has her hands clasped on her lap.
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Catalog reference: 2012.137.7.12
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