Photograph of participants at the 20th Anniversary March on Washington

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a crowd of participants standing in and along the edges of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 27, 1983. The base of the Washington Monument is centrally depicted in the background with the United States Capitol behind it in the distant background. The Reflecting Pool is depicted on the left side of the image and a large crowd of participants are gathered along the right side of the image, along the edges of the Reflecting Pool. Some of the participants are standing in the water in the foreground and middle ground. On the verso of the image are handwritten inscriptions that provide the image date, event information, location, image number, the name of the printer, and the signature of the donor.

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