Photograph of a young man with two dogs

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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 young man with two (2) dogs. The boy is crouched on a sidewalk petting a medium sized, white dog beside him. He also has a small, dark dog in front of him. The boy is wearing a white collared shirt, dark sweater vest, and medium toned pants. He is petting the white dog with his proper right hand, and the small dark dog with his proper left hand. Behind him is a street lined with townhouses. A dark colored car is parked in front on the townhouses on the right side of the image. An inscription in black ink in the bottom right quadrant of the photograph reads, ["Billy" / "Playboy" and / Mr. "Moo"[?] / 1940]. There is a stamp in black ink on the back of the photograph that reads, [C44].

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