Photograph of a couple participating in the March on Washington

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a man and a woman participating in the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. The man is depicted on the left side of the image, slightly behind the woman with his proper left hand linked through the crook of her proper right elbow. He is wearing a suit with a tie, sunglasses, a pin back button on his proper left lapel, and a light toned fedora with a dark band. The woman is wearing a light toned, short-sleeved dress, sunglasses, a feathered half hat, and is holding the handles of a white handbag in front of her with both hands. A crowd of participants are standing in the background against a line of trees. On the verso of the image are handwritten inscriptions that provide publication information, image date, event information, location, image number, the name of the printer, and the signature of the donor.

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