Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of Paul Brown
ca. 1937
New York City, New York, 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 silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Paul Brown. Brown is depicted in profile from the chest up. He is facing the left edge of the image. Brown is wearing a black tuxedo with a white bow tie. There is a white flower attached to his proper left lapel and a white pocket square tucked into his proper left breast pocket. The photographer's mark, printed in the negative, in the bottom left corner of the photograph reads, [H. BAttELLE / N.Y.C.]. There are no inscriptions on the front of the photograph. There are several pencil notations written on the back of the photograph.
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Catalog reference: 2013.46.25.203
