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Portrait of Mora Howard

1970

Columbia, Marion County, Mississippi, 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 Mora Howard. Howard is featured from the shoulders up. She is wearing a top with a ruffled collar. She looks down to the right of the image. The photograph is mounted on a mat that has [Olson] written in ink in the bottom right corner, beneath the photograph. The mat is mounted to a paper frame. On the back of the photograph are handwritten inscriptions identifying the subject, date, and photographer.

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Catalog reference: 2018.21.1

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