Pure Joy

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 gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of a child at a street baptism. The child is bending backwards with his face toward the sky and his hands on his head. He is smilling as water dropplets fall down on and around him. There are no inscriptions, front or back.

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