Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Portrait of Edna Rae Newsome
1970
Columbia, 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 Edna Rae Newsome. Newsome is featured from the chest up. She is seated and looking towards the camera. She is wearing a striped shirt with a vest over it. Other unidentified young adults are partially visible in the background. 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: 2018.21.79
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