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Young Trombone Players

1997

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 by Kenneth Royster of a group with young trombone players. In the foreground of the image are two (2) young boys each playing a trombone. The boy on the left has his trombone angled up and has a towel on his head. There are various people standing behind the boys. Most are wearing white and some are wet, presumably from a baptism. The figure directly behind the boys is drying his head with a towel. There are numerical inscriptions on the reverse.

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Catalog reference: 2018.41.6

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