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Three guys

1968

Washington, District of Columbia, 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 photograph of three young men in front of shelters in Resurrection City. The man on the proper right side is wearing a cap with a pom pom on top. He is wearing denim jeans with a belt and an open, patterned, thigh length robe. The man in the center is in the background. He is wearing a white shirt and is crouched down, pointing at the camera. The man on the proper left side is shirtless and is wearing jeans. He has a hoop earring in his proper left ear and a bracelet on his proper right wrist. His proper right arm is bent and his fist is slightly raised. His proper left arm is down by his side. There are trees in the background. There is a thick white border around the image. The black of the photograph is blank.

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Catalog reference: 2017.109.8

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