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Portrait of Anna and Otho Barnes

1970

Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi, 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.

A black and white photograph of Anna and Otho Barnes. Anna and Otho are featured at the center of the photograph, standing on a set of stairs that lead up to a screen door. Anna is wearing a dress and apron and Otho is wearing pants and long-sleeved shirt with suspenders. The photograph is inside a frame. The back of the frame has several inscriptions about the subject of the photograph, the photographer, and numbers. A label on the back of the frame reads: [First Year of Integration of Miss. School]. The back of the frame also has two hooks and picture hanging wire attached.

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Catalog reference: 2018.21.55

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