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Onlookers, Gaston Motel

1962

1510 5th Ave, N, Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham, West Midlands County, Alabama, 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 black-and-white digital image of a crowd of men and women, standing around a parked car, looking up. Featured in the center of the image is a woman leaning on the open window of the car. She is wearing a dark three-quarter sleeve dress with a double strand pearl necklace. In the background of the image, the Gaston Motel can be seen with a large sign on the overhand of the building stating, [Do NOT ENTER].

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Catalog reference: 2015.129.18

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