Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Susie cleaning crab on her front porch
1979; printed 2007
Daufuskie Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, Sea Islands, North and Central America
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 a woman named Susie cleaning crabs on her front porch. She is sitting in a chair and has a pot in her lap. A child is standing on the ledge of the porch behind the support column. There is a chicken in the yard in the bottom left corner of the photograph. There are no inscriptions, front or back.
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Catalog reference: 2014.310.38
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