Digital image of Taylor family members on a seaside street on Martha's Vineyard

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 black-and-white image of three men and a woman on a seaside street on Martha's Vineyard. The men are in bathing suits and have towels around their necks. Behind them is a bus and, on the other side of the street, Victorian-style buildings and houses. A sign on a second-story porch behind them at proper left reads [MARTHA'S VINEYARD].

Catalog date

1950s

Recorded places

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

Recorded subjects

African American; Communities; Domestic life; Families; Photography; Recreation; Segregation

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