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The Eighteenth Annual Convention of the P.P.B.A. of A., Chicago, IL

November 15, 1938

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black and white group photograph of the Pullman Porters Benefit Association of America taken in Chicago, Illinois to mark its eighteenth annual convention. The men are posed in three lines. The back two lines are standing and the front row is sitting in chairs. There is a mural in the back of the photograph.

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Catalog reference: 2010.31.2

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