United Nations ID card belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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This is a United Nations ID card belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. It is a plastic laminated card with a color photograph of Etta Moten Barnett in the top left hand corner. In the photograph Etta Moten Barnett is depicted from the shoulders up. She is wearing a black top, a pink scarf around her neck and glasses. Under her photograph is an illegible signature and a date that reads “ DEC 31 1989.” In the upper right corner of the ID card is a dark red rectangle with white text that reads “UNITED NATIONS -New York / AFFILIATE / No. 89/0648.” In the bottom left corner of the rectangle is the United Nations logo of a globe framed by a laurel wreath. Under the red rectangle is a section filled in with three lines of hand typed information. The text reads “BARNETT, Etta M. / The Links, Inc. / Etta M. Barnett [hand signed].”

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