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Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend near a ledge

most likely 1909

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 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 photograph of a Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend standing near a ledge of some kind, possibly a dock. Behing him are a man standing on the barricade and another man holding a guitar. On the back of the photograph is a number written in pencil [301].

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Catalog reference: 2011.36.39

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