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Portrait of unidentified elementary school students

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 two unidentified young boys. The boy to the left of the photograph looks directly at the camera. The second boy, on the right side of the image, looks to the right of the image, away from the camera. A school desk is partially visible in the background. On the back of the photograph are handwritten inscriptions identifying the subject, date, and photographer.

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Catalog reference: 2018.21.90

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