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Portrait of Anna and Otho Barnes

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 Anna and Otho Barnes. Otho sits in the foreground of the photograph in a wooden chair. He faces the right of the image and is wearing a hat. Anna is featured in the background of the image standing near a table with a phone on it. In the right background, there is an unidentified person partially visible. The image is mounted to a paper frame which has the photographer’s name [Martha Olson] written below the image. On the back of the photograph are handwritten inscriptions identifying the subject, date, and photographer.

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Catalog reference: 2018.21.15

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