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Digital image of Ed and Lucille Mapp on their honeymoon on Martha's Vineyard

1951

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 image of newlyweds Ed and Lucille Mapp, guests of Taylor's Playfair cottage, on a beach on Martha's Vineyard along with another unidentified man. The image depicts two young men lounging on the beach, near the water, on Martha's Vineyard. Both are wearing bathing suits, and one faces the water while the other is turned away from the waves. The man in the foreground is unidentified and the man in the center is Ed Mapp. Standing behind them is a woman, Lucille Mapp, in a bathing suit and cap, holding her nose and pointing. Other groups of beach goers are visible behind them.

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Catalog reference: 2014.112.8

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