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Smoke and the Lovers

1992

Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, 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 digital image of people sitting in a diner. The couple in the corner, a man and woman, have their arms around each other with heads positioned very closely. The man one booth over sits looking away from them and smokes a cigarette with his offhand on the table. On the leftmost edge of the frame, a jukebox appears..

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Catalog reference: 2016.158.5

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