Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
The Baptism I
1997
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 by Kenneth Royster of a river baptism. The image shows three (3) unidentified men in the center. They are all wearing white and standing in waist-deep water. The figure in the middle is turned away from the camera, looking down. There is one (1) man on either side of him and each have a hand on his back. They are partially in profile and are leaning toward the central figure. In the background, the shoreline and trees are visible. There is a numerical inscription on the reverse.
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Catalog reference: 2018.41.3
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