Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Studio portrait of mother and child
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 a woman and a female child. The woman, left, is wearing a light button down dress, gloves, earrings, a necklace and heels. She has a purse in her hands. The child, right, is wearing a light short dress, socks and dark shoes. The child is standing on the bench with her arms around the woman's neck.
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Catalog reference: 2012.137.8.1
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