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No. 615, The Way the Negro Race is Dying Out: Mrs. Whitaker and her Children

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Unidentified Woman or Women Unidentified Child or Children

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An albumen print mounted on a stereograph-sized card mount depicting a woman identified as Mrs. Whitaker and eleven (11) children. They are all siting on a wooden porch outside of a wooden building and looking at the camera. The two eldest children sit at the left frame on one side of a post, while the rest of the children sit in a row on the other side of the post. Mrs. Whitaker sits in a chair behind the long row of children nursing an infant. The image is mounted on orange cardboard that is pale pink on the reverse. A yellow paper label is adhered at the verso center with handwritten and printed text in black ink identifying the photographer, place, title, and number.
Type:
Image
Format:
Albumen And Silver On Paper On Card Mount
Rights:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Smithsonian Institution