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Little Samuel Sleeps

September 1928

Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

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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 newspaper clipping of the obituary from the newspaper for Samuel Jackson Jr., containing a photograph of the boy. The clipping is mounted to another piece of paper or light card stock that was then ripped along the edges, giving the appearance of previously having been in a photo album.

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Catalog reference: 2014.75.80

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