Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photographic transparency of the Poor People's Campaign
May 21, 1968 - June 23, 1968
National Mall, Washington, District of Columbia, 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.
This color transparency depicts a little girl sitting on a woman's lap. The little girl wears a yellow pattered dress. She has a large doll in a loose dress propped against her legs. The woman sits on a folding chair under a large tree, with her left arm wrapped around the girl. The tree has a rope wrapped around its trunk, and tent lines staked on the ground beyond it.
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Catalog reference: 2015.245.272
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