Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Portrait of Langston Hughes
ca. 1960
Smithsonian NMAAHC collection
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 gelatin silver print of Langston Hughes sitting at a desk in front of a typewriter. Hughes is wearing a short sleeve button-up shirt with vertical stripes and holds a pencil in his right hand. Handwritten on reverse side of photograph is [11 x 14 -Outer/350.00/49/32/6/DR 0040/Portrait of Langston Hughes].
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Catalog reference: 2013.43.3