Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of Mr. J. E. Edwards, Choir Director of First AME
1940s-1950s
Los Angeles, California, 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.
Black and white portrait image of a man wearing a dark jacket, dark vest, white shirt, and white bow-tie. He has a mustache and goatee and looks the left of the camera. The image is hazy at the corners and along the bottom. The background is darker near the man's head. The image shows the man from the chest up in three-quarter view. The photo is adhered via glue to a piece of cardstock the same size as the photo.
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Catalog reference: 2013.227.1
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