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Indoor portrait of a scene from a play

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 two women. The man, right, is wearing a suit and bow tie with a moustache. He is holding a bottle of liquid. The woman in the center is sitting in a chair with a fork in her hand approaching her mouth and a glass in the other hand. A plate rests in her lap. She is wearing a light dress with open toed heels. There is a table to her left and an identical chair. The other woman has her left hand resting on this chair as she stands behind it. She has a glass in her right hand and is wearing a floral dress, dark heels and a necklace.

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Catalog reference: 2012.137.7.23

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