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Miles Davis, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, 1990

1990; printed 1995

Newport, Rhode Island, United States, North and Central America

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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 silver gelatin photograph of Miles Davis at the Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, 1990. Captured close wearing a dark sleeveless tank top, Miles Davis, faces the camera with his proper left arm raised. His dark wavy hair is down, and he wears shining chains, to include a pendant, around his neck. The twin palm emblem of Palm Press, Inc. is imprinted at the bottom right of the photographic sheet.

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Catalog reference: 2019.62.10

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