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Boiling crab

1979; printed 2007

Daufuskie Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, Sea Islands, 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.

This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of men boiling crabs. The man closest to the camera is wearing a short-sleeve dress shirt and baseball cap. The man on the right is wearing a stripped dress shirt, light pants and a baseball cap. He is leaning down over the pot of crabs and is holding a stick. A young man is standing between the two men and is wearing a t-shirt, shorts and a baseball cap and is holding a cup. There is a house in the background. There are no inscriptions, front or back.

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

Catalog reference: 2014.310.36

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