Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Wedding portrait of the bride and groom with their wedding cake
September 30, 1962
Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States
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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