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Group portrait of a wedding reception

1948 - 1970s

Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

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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 reference: 2012.137.3.9

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