Portrait of Ida Belle Abram and Deloris Johnson

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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 Ida Belle Abram and her granddaughter Deloris Johnson. The photograph features Abram and Johnson on a porch of a house. Abram sits on a chair on the porch, with her hands on her lap. Johnson stands on the opposite end of the porch, with her arms around one of the posts. The house is surrounded by flowering bushes. Behind the house, fences and fields are partially visible. The photograph is inside a frame. The back of the frame has several inscriptions about the subject of the photograph, the photographer, and numbers. A label on the back of the frame reads: [Deloris Johnson at her Grandmother's House Columbia, MS / 1st Year of Integration of MS. School]. Metal hooks and picture wire are attached to the back of the frame.

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