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Digital image of Taylor family children seaside on Martha's Vineyard

1950s

Oak Bluffs, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States, Martha's Vineyard, North and Central America

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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 black-and-white digital image of Taylor family children seaside on Martha's Vineyard. At the center of the photograph are two (2) girls, at proper left, and a boy, at proper right, standing beside a seawall and looking towards the camera. All are wearing bathing suits and are barefoot. The girl at proper left has a towel around her shoulders, the girl in the middle is looking at the camera and smiling with her arms by her sides, and the boy at proper right is holding a towel or blanket around himself, with his arms up and his hands at his mouth. Behind them in the background is a pedestrian railing.

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Catalog reference: 2014.112.108

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