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Returned Migrant with his Craftwork

1981

Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, 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 silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a man in his wood working shop in Puerto Rico. He is wearing a light color tank top with dark color trim and a bracelet on his proper right wrist. With both hands, he is holding up a piece of wood he has crafted to depict an image of two parental figures and their child. The front of the print has the photographer’s signature written in pencil in the bottom right corner. On the back of the photograph is a black inked stamp, the photographer’s signature, and information of the photograph.

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Catalog reference: 2021.53.12

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