Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Portrait of Noreen Watts
1970
Marion County, Mississippi, 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 Noreen Watts. Watts is pictured standing in front of a wall. She looks straight at the camera and has her proper right hand on touching the wall above her proper right ear. She is wearing a dress and her legs, arms and hands have a dust-like material on them. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame. Below the photograph handwritten text in ink reads: [Martha Olson]. On the back of the photograph are handwritten inscriptions identifying the subject, date, and photographer.
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Catalog reference: 2018.21.13
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