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Portrait of a girl named Octavia

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 color print of a girl named Octavia. Octavia is featured from the shoulder up, seated and facing the right side of the image. She is wearing a white blouse and has her hair half up and half down. There is a pre-printed date on the top of the image paper that reads [Dec 70]. On the back of the photograph are handwritten inscriptions identifying the subject, date, and photographer.

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Catalog reference: 2018.21.115

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