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Photograph of people standing in a line on a street in Tulsa, Oklahoma

ca. 1920

Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, 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 black-and-white photograph that depicts a large group of people standing in a line on a street with one car in the center of the photograph. Additional people can be seen standing in the street on the left side of the photograph. Buildings are being constructed in the background. A building on the right side of the photograph has a sign on the second story that is partially legible. It reads “OPEN [illegible] BUS[illegible].”

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Catalog reference: 2013.79.15

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