Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Young children reenact the birth of Jesus in the Christmas Nativity play at St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, Washington, D.C. 2003
2003; printed 2012
Washington, District of Columbia, 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 children performing the Christmas Nativity on a church altar. A woman is directing several children on the left side of the photograph. A girl with a shawl around her head and holding a baby or doll is sitting at center. To her right stands a boy with a hood around his head and a blanket around his shoulders. Several children are kneeling behind them on the right side of the photograph. A girl standing at a podium with a microphone is in the background on the left side of the print. No inscriptions on the front or back.
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Catalog reference: 2012.141.37
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