Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-shopping, Mobile, Alabama

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A color pigment print titled “Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-shopping, Mobile, Alabama” by Gordon Parks. The photograph was taken from behind a display case full of white mannequin children. Looking into the display case is a child, Ondria Tanner, and her grandmother, Ondria Thornton, who has her proper left arm around the younger Ondria. Ondria is wearing an orange dress and her grandmother is wearing a white short-sleeve shirt and a mint green skirt. Behind them is a display case of white mannequin adults. On the back of the photograph is the Gordon Parks Foundation copyright and authentication stamp with signature, print date and edition number in pencil.

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