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Swinging Horn Section, c. mid 1950s

ca. 1955

Fillmore, San Francisco, California, 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.

This black and white photograph depicts three band members playing their instruments. The musicians, two men and a woman, stand in front of a busily decorated wall. One man, wearing a dark suit plays a saxophone. The woman next to him, in a light colored suit, also plays the saxophone. The man on her other side wears a light colored suit and plays the trumpet. In the foreground are diners seated at a table with a checked tablecloth. On eh back of the photograph is a green sticker with handwritten text that reads "#16."

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Catalog reference: 2016.117.16

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