Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Onlookers, Gaston Motel
1962
1510 5th Ave, N, Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham, West Midlands County, Alabama, United States, 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.
A black-and-white digital image of a crowd of men and women, standing around a parked car, looking up. Featured in the center of the image is a woman leaning on the open window of the car. She is wearing a dark three-quarter sleeve dress with a double strand pearl necklace. In the background of the image, the Gaston Motel can be seen with a large sign on the overhand of the building stating, [Do NOT ENTER].
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Catalog reference: 2015.129.18
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