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Photograph of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Elyse Martin-Smith

July 21, 2023

Washington, District of Columbia, 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 digital image of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Harvard University student Elyse Martin-Smith at the Rayburn House Office Building. Martin-Smith interviewed Congresswoman Norton for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project. The image captures both women from waist up, as they both sit in a horseshoe-shaped chair. Congresswoman Norton, on the left, wears a blue and brown pattered jacket over a brown shirt. On the proper left side of the jacket, Norton has the Member pin for the 118th Congress. Norton also wears gold colored earrings and glasses. Martin-Smith, on the right, wears a black shirt underneath a red blazer. She wears a treble clef necklace. Both look directly into the camera and the background is slightly blurred.

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Catalog reference: 2025.12.5.3

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