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Digital image of Taylor family members at the beach on Martha's Vineyard

1954

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 the Taylor family at the beach on Martha's Vineyard. At center, in front of the gently breaking surf, stands a man in a bathing suit, facing towards the camera and looking to the proper left. In the foreground at proper left stand two (2) men wearing hats, and at proper right a young child and a woman are lying on beach blankets on the sand. In the background at proper right are three (3) people swimming in the ocean wearing light-colored swim caps, and a man wearing swim trunks standing in the water, facing to the right.

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Catalog reference: 2014.112.21

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