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Checker players at the corner of Sixth and Q Streets N. W. Washington, D. C.

Object Details

Caption
Checker players at the corner of Sixth and Q Streets in northwest Washington. March 1974.
Milton Williams, Moments in Time, 1973-1993 (Nashville: James C. Winston Publishing Co., 1996), 147.
Description
A black-and-white photograph of seven men wearing coats and hats outside a storefront. Several of the men sit on upturned crates around a checkerboard balanced on one man's lap. The photograph is attached to a thick mounting board. The board is stamped on the back.
Data Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Photograph by
Milton Williams, American, born 1940
Subject of
Unidentified Man or Men
Date
March 1974
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Milton Williams Archives
Medium
silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, mounting board
Dimensions
H x W (Image and Sheet): 9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (23.5 x 34.9 cm)
Type
gelatin silver prints
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