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Man at the Piano, Fountain House

1959

Manhattan, New York City, New York County, New York, 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 silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of an unidentified man’s proper left profile seated at a piano at The Fountain House Foundation, an organization supporting mental health. With a darkened background, his fingertips are on the white keys, his head looking down at them. The man is wearing a white shirt with a black or dark-colored coat. There is no inscription on the front of the photograph. On the back are the photographer’s stamp and signature, along with some alpha- numerical notations.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2021.53.6

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