Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of Kelly Elaine Navies, Rebekah S. Otto, and Dr. MaryLouise Patterson
May 25, 2023
Washington, District of Columbia, 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 digital image of pediatrician Dr. MaryLouise Patterson with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s oral historian, Kelly Elaine Navies, and scholar activist from the University of Maryland, Rebekah S. Otto at the Museum. Navies coordinated the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project and Otto interviewed Dr. Patterson for the project. The image captures the three from the waist up. Naives, on the left, wears a blue, paisley design shirt and glasses. Dr. Patterson, in the middle, wears a matching shirt and pants dark green with yellow and light yellow flowers. Her glasses have a red frame. Otto, on the right, wears a light pink shirt with white polka dots. The three smile directly into the camera.
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Catalog reference: 2025.12.2.5
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