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Printing plate of Captain Harold Martin

1943

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 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 printing plate of Harold Martin used by the Chicago Defender. Martin is featured sitting behind his post exchanged officer desk at Tuskegee. He is dressed in his military uniform and is show from the waist up. He looks straight at the camera. There are framed photographs on the wall behind him. The back of the plate has an inscription that reads [Captain Harold Martin / Short].

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Catalog reference: 2012.18.5.31

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