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Photograph of the Oklahoma National Guard during the Tulsa Race Massacre

1921

Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

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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 the Oklahoma National Guard in front of a Tulsa, Oklahoma police station. Uniformed guardsmen at right are lined up in front of a row of cars. At lower left, guardsmen surround a tripod-mounted machine gun. The gun sits on a wheeled flatbed. At top right, several people congregate near the entrance to a building with "POLICE STATION" sign mounted above the door. There is loss at the top right and lower right corners of the photograph. The photograph is fused to cardstock along with objects 2019.95.7, 2019.95.8, and 2019.95.10.

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Catalog reference: 2019.95.9

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