Museum object · digital images
Nun and Policeman
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 digital image of a nun and a police officer. The nun is in the foreground. She is standing in profile with her face to the proper left side of the image. She is wearing a white tunic with a black and white headpiece. There is a police officer standing on her left side. He is wearing a short sleeve shirt and a helmet with a chin strap. He is standing with his arms folded and he is in profile, facing the proper left side of the image. There are trees in the background, out of focus.
- Catalog date
- 1968
- Recorded places
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Activism; Catholicism; Civil Rights; Justice; Local and regional; Politics; Poverty
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2017.90.3
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection