Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Group portrait of men and women in a semi-circle
1948 - 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 black-and-white photograph of twenty-two women and two men. Eight of the women sit in folding chairs arranged in an arced row. The other fourteen women stand behind them with one shoulder angled forward. The two men stand on either end of the two rows. They wear suits and ties; the man on the right also wears an overcoat. The women wear a combination of dresses, skirts, blouses, and jackets. The room they are in has hardwood floors and a door with a transom. On the wall is a poster with a castle landscape, and a second poster mentions the YMCA.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2012.137.3.7
