Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend on a ship
most likely 1909
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 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.
A black-and-white photograph of Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend in a three-piece suit, overcoat, and flat cap. He stands on the deck of a ship on the with funnels in the background. In the far back on the right Boston's Custom House Tower. On the back of the photograph is the number 301 handwritten in pencil.
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Catalog reference: 2011.36.50
