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Photograph of girl reading on a pallet of newspapers at the Pittsburgh Courier

ca. 1940

Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 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 of a young girl sitting on a pallet of Pittsburgh Courier newspapers. The young girl holds a copy of the newspaper across her lap with both her hands while looking directly into the camera. There is an imprint of a palm tree in the bottom right corner of the border on the front of the photograph. The back of the photograph has an inscription of the numbers: [1131], [1131.04], and a photographer's stamp.

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Catalog reference: 2014.302.17

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