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Portrait of unidentified students

1970

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 unidentified children sitting in a classroom. The children are at desks with work in front of them. One young boy, in the foreground of the photograph, is looking at the camera. Another young boy is in the background of the image working on classwork. A third child is partially visible in the back left of the photograph. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame. On the back of the photograph are handwritten inscriptions identifying the subject, date, and photographer.

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Catalog reference: 2018.21.75

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