Museum object · chromogenic color prints
Studio portrait of a woman in a nurse's uniform
1960 - 1970s
Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, 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 color photograph of a female nurse. She is wearing a white nurse's cap visible behind her curly hair and a white garment with two rows of buttons and pleats on either side down the front.
- Catalog date
- 1960 - 1970s
- Recorded places
- Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; American South; Communities; Medicine; Nursing; Photography
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: 2012.137.25.2
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
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