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Untitled

May 8, 2015

Baltimore, Maryland, 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 photograph by Devin Allen of an unidentified female police officer hugging an unidentified child in Baltimore, Maryland. The uniformed officer stands in the street behind the child, bending down to wrap her hands around the child, with her head resting on the child's right shoulder. She smiles and looks at the camera. The child wears a t-shirt with a printed design obscured by the officer's hands, and also smiles and looks at the camera. In the left background out of focus is another police officer looking at an object in his hands. 45.

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Catalog reference: 2016.98.45

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