Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Portrait of Marion Bell and Josephine Irvin
1970
Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
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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 photograph of Marion Allen Bell and Josephine Irvin. Bell is featured in the front of the photograph in a close-up. She looks directly at the camera and is wearing a shirt with a collar. Irvin is in the background of the photograph, partially visible, behind Bell's proper left shoulder. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame by plastic photograph corners. [Martha Olson] is handwritten in pencil on the interior frame below the photograph. On the back of the photograph are handwritten inscriptions identifying the subject, date, and photographer.
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Catalog reference: 2018.21.42
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