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Photographic print of Jennie Garner

late 1880s

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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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 black-and-white photograph of Jennie Garner. The portrait captures Garner from the chest up as she faces forward. She is wearing a jacket with zig-zag edges over a patterned shirt and a jeweled choker necklace. The photograph has a rectangular mat frame and backing, the front with a thick, tan inner border and thin, tan outer border. On the back is a handwritten inscription handwritten in pencil: [Mrs Jennie Garner / to here sister / Mrs. E. A. Townsend].

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Catalog reference: 2011.36.2

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