Photograph of students in meditation at St. Augustine's High School

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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.

This black and white photograph of sodalists at St. Augustine High School depicts a room of nine young men seated in two rows, opposite a man in a priest's cassock sitting with his back to the viewer and an open book in front of him. There is a narrow table between him and the young men. A small pile of books sits at the left hand side of the table. One of the young men, wearing a striped suit, is holding one of these books. The young men are dressed in light colored button down or polo shirts and dark pants. There is a door and a window behind them, and a crucifix on the wall. In the photograph's margins is text that reads "N.O. La St. Augustine's H.S. sodalists 1961." On the verso is a stamp "JOSEPHITE HARVEST/ Photo by_______." The blank is filled in with a handwritten name "Rev. Charles Hall, SSJ.

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