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Photograph of Black Sheep, NYC, 1991

1991

New York City, New York, 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 photograph of Black Sheep, Dres and Mista Lawnge. Dres is on the proper right side. He is wearing a multicolored sweater and a plaid cap. He has a mustache. He is leaning forward and his proper right hand is covering the proper right side of the image and it is out of focus. Mista Lawnge is on the proper left side of the image. He is wearing a black shirt with a white drawing, a sideways black baseball cap, and a diamond earring in his left ear. He has a mustache and long sideburns. He is standing ups straight. There is a white border around the image. It is thinner on the top and bottom and thicker on the two sides. There is a yellowing tear at the top from where a piece of tape used to be.

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Catalog reference: 2015.132.73

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