Albumen print of a sharecropping family

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

An albumen print mounted on dark gray pasteboard depicting a family or group of unidentified people, likely sharecroppers, standing outside in front of a row of small houses. The unidentified people include two (2) adult men, four (4) adult women, and four (4) children. The four women stand in the center; the woman at far left wears a hat and dark-colored sweater, and the woman at the far right holds a baby in her arms. The women are flanked by the two men. Both men wear hats, and the man on the far right holds a pipe in his mouth. There are three additional young children standing among the group:one, in a hat, stands next to the woman in the hat, another peers out from between the two women at center, and the third stands in front of the woman holding the baby.

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