Twins at WDIA, Memphis, TN

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Object Details

Created by

Dr. Ernest C. Withers, American, 1922 - 2007

Subject of

Unidentified Child or Children

Description

Two African American boys with arms outstretched stand on telephone books and sing into a radio station microphone.

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Date

1948

Object number

2009.16.22

Restrictions & Rights

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Type

gelatin silver prints

portraits

Medium

silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper

Dimensions

H x W: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

Place depicted

Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification

Photographs and Still Images

Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Data Source

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic

African American

Children

Photography

Singers (Musicians)

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd59a1f87cd-186a-45a9-ba79-d548d55f40c2

Record ID

nmaahc_2009.16.22