Photograph of a man and four women sitting on a beach

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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.

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a man and four (4) women sitting on a beach. The man is centrally depicted with two (2) women seated on either side of him and two (2) women kneeling behind him. The man is seated in the sand with his knees drawn up, his arms resting on his knees, and his proper left hand holding his proper right hand. He is wearing dark swim trunks. The woman seated on the left is wearing a strapless, light colored swimsuit. Her proper right leg tucked under her and her proper left leg is extended forward. The woman seated on the right is depicted sitting on a striped towel. She has her knees drawn up and her proper left arm draped over her shins. She is looking towards the left side of the image.

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