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

ca. 1940

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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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 and letters: [18 sec], [f 11], [OM 25 Y], and drawing of a square with numbers: [-10, +12, +18].

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2014.302.67

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