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Indoor portrait of a biblical scene

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 a man and a woman in a biblical scene. The man, left, is dressed as an angel in a light robe and wings with a halo. He is holding a horn in his right hand. He is standing beside two bales of hay which the woman, right, is sitting on. She is dressed in a blanket which covers part of her head and has her hands clasped on her lap.

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Catalog reference: 2012.137.7.12

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