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Photographic print of helmeted boy in toy US tank

August 1945

Francis Street and Wylie Avenue, Hill District, 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 boy wearing a helmet in a toy US Army tank. The boy leans over the proper left side of the tank and smiles at the camera. The tank is stationary on a paved driveway adjacent to a brick building. There is an imprint of a palm tree in the bottom left corner of the border on the front of the photograph. The back of the photograph has an inscription, by hand, of the number: [1094.01] and a photographer's stamp.

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Catalog reference: 2014.302.9

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