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Wedding portrait of the bride and groom with their wedding cake

September 30, 1962

Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States

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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 wedding portrait depicting the bride, Deloris Braxton, and the groom, Robert T. Shipp, with their wedding cake. The bride holds a large bouquet of flowers and the couple stands behind a table with the wedding cake and a punchbowl on top. The photograph was captured by photographer Henry Clay Anderson at Braxton’s maternal grandmother’s house in Winterville, Mississippi.

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Catalog reference: 2007.1.69.4.29.C

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