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Portrait of Gwen Toney

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 Gwen Toney. Toney is featured with her proper left hand pointing towards the camera and her eyes looking towards the right of the photograph. She is wearing a dress with three-quarter puffy sleeves. She is standing in front of a wall that has a variety of posters and pictures taped to it. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame. On the back of the photograph are handwritten inscriptions identifying the subject, date, and photographer.

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Catalog reference: 2018.21.77

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