Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Pews
1958; printed 2009
South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
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.
Black and white photograph of a young African American boy seated in an empty church pew. The image was captured in 1958 but was printed from the original negative in 2009. The photographic print is signed and dated by the photographer, George Krause, in ink on the recto.
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Catalog reference: 2011.162.10
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