Object Details
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend posed in front of a tree. In the background is a building with windows to the right. Dr. Townsend is dressed in in a coat, vest, tie, and hat.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend Sr., American, 1875 - 1959
- Date
- 1925
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 4 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (10.5 x 6.7 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
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