Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Portrait of a girl named Octavia
1970
Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi, 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 color print of a girl named Octavia. Octavia is featured from the shoulder up, seated and facing the right side of the image. She is wearing a white blouse and has her hair half up and half down. There is a pre-printed date on the top of the image paper that reads [Dec 70]. On the back of the photograph are handwritten inscriptions identifying the subject, date, and photographer.
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Catalog reference: 2018.21.115
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