Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Musician
1968
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.
A black-and-white photograph of a musician sitting at a piano during Poor People's Campaign. He is sitting in profile and has curly hair and a goatee. He is wearing glasses and a beanie and has a cigarette in his mouth. He is hunched forward. There is a person in the foreground. They are wearing boots and the proper right leg is bent and resting on an unseen surface. Their proper right hand is holding onto a metal bar. There is another person who appears to be sitting on top of the piano. They are holding onto a cigarette. There is a thin border around the image. The back of the photograph is blank. There is a white border around the image. It is signed "Laura Jones" on the proper left side under the image. The back of the photograph is blank.
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Catalog reference: 2017.109.3
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