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Photograph of Paul Brown

ca. 1937

New York City, 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.

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Paul Brown. Brown is depicted in profile from the chest up. He is facing the left edge of the image. Brown is wearing a black tuxedo with a white bow tie. There is a white flower attached to his proper left lapel and a white pocket square tucked into his proper left breast pocket. The photographer's mark, printed in the negative, in the bottom left corner of the photograph reads, [H. BAttELLE / N.Y.C.]. There are no inscriptions on the front of the photograph. There are several pencil notations written on the back of the photograph.

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Catalog reference: 2013.46.25.203

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