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Portrait of 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 Otho Barnes seated in rocking chair. Barnes is featured in profile and is facing the left of the photograph. He is dressed in a hat and jacket and dress pants. 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: [Mr. Otho Barnes Columbia, Miss. / 1st Year of Integration of Miss. School].

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Catalog reference: 2018.21.69

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