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Mr. Moore's Bar-b-que, 125th Street

1976; printed 2005

Harlem, New York City, New York County, 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.

This image depicts three people at a lunch counter. Behind the counter is a man in an apron, turned three quarters towards the camera. He stands with his right hand on the counter and his face towards the camera. Further behind the counter is another man, wearing an apron and sunglasses. In the foreground is a woman sitting with her back to the camera. Wearing a white coat and hat, she holds a cigarette in her left hand and faces the men across the counter.

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Catalog reference: 2013.197.7

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