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Portrait of Mora Howard

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 Mora Howard. Howard is featured from the chest up and is looking directly at the camera. She is wearing a sleeveless top with a high ruffled collar. The photograph is in a frame. The back of the frame has several inscriptions about the subject of the photograph, the photographer, and numbers. One of the labels reads: [Portrait of Mora Howard / Columbia, MS / Integration of Mississippi Schools]. The back of the frame has picture hanging wire on it.

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Catalog reference: 2018.21.9

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