Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of a family posing in front of a house
early 20th century
United States, North and Central America
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 sepia tone photograph of a family posing in front of a house. The two women, one man, two teenage girls, and a boy are depicted in three rows. At the front, seated in a matched pair of high back wooden chairs, is a woman and a teenage girl. Both the woman and the girl are wearing white blouses and light tone, long skirts. They are both facing the viewer and are seated with their hands folded in their laps. The teenage girl on the left, has her hair side parted, pulled back, and secured with a black ribbon headband. The woman on the right is wearing a graduated, collar length, pearl necklace. She has her hair side parted and pulled back into a loose knot at the back. Standing in the second row behind them is a man and another teenage girl.
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Catalog reference: 2021.13.10
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