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Digital image of Taylor family women and men on the beach 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 a group of men and women on the beach on Martha's Vineyard. The men and women are clustered in a group, smiling and laughing. They are wearing bathing suits and swim caps, and the woman at center is wearing sunglasses. At far proper left is a smiling man, sitting almost out of frame, weairng a striped shirt, trousers, and cap. In the background, behind the group, is an expanse of sea grasses.

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Catalog reference: 2014.112.39

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