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Albumen print of Rev. Nelson W. Jordan

1890s

Prince Edward County, Virginia, 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 brownish photograph printed on textured paper of Nelson Jordan. Jordan is seated in a three-quarter portrait with his body turned slightly left, but facing the camera. He wears a dark-colored three-piece suit, a dark tie, a pocket watch, and has a beard and mustache. His name is handwritten in graphite on the verso.

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Catalog reference: 2014.63.102.33

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