Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of girl reading on a pallet of newspapers at the Pittsburgh Courier
ca. 1940
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
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 photograph of a young girl sitting on a pallet of Pittsburgh Courier newspapers. The young girl holds a copy of the newspaper across her lap with both her hands while looking directly into the camera. There is an imprint of a palm tree in the bottom right corner of the border on the front of the photograph. The back of the photograph has an inscription of the numbers: [1131], [1131.04], and a photographer's stamp.
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2014.302.17
