Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Group portrait of a wedding reception
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 approximately thirty-two people at a wedding reception. The group stands around the outside of a U-shaped battery of tables covered in tablecloths. Slightly right of center, a man in a suit and bowtie and a woman in a dress prepare to cut a three-tiered wedding cake.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2012.137.3.9
