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1900

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 color half-tone print depicting three children holding a watermelon. This stereo card consists of two identical side by side images. In the daytime, outside of a stone faced root cellar, three dark haired boys all have their hands on a very large watermelon. From left to right: a boy in a light colored long sleeve shirt and brown pants, smiles as he touches one end of a watermelon with his proper right hand. Next to him, a boy in a bright colored long sleeve shirt smiles at the camera with his proper right hand on the watermelon. A boy wearing a yellow long sleeve jacket and dark pants crouches on his knees with both hands resting on the watermelon. All three are situated at the opening of a root cellar, green foliage to their right, and clumped dirt at their feet.

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Catalog reference: 2019.3.2

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