Object Details
- Description
- A digital print depicting a black-and-white image of a young child, Margarita, crouched on the floor writing in a bilingual classroom with her back to the camera. Wearing a horizontally stripped shirt, pants, and shoes, she is writing on a piece of paper with her proper right hand. The bottom of the blackboard is lined with posters of numbers. Written in chalk on the blackboard are instructions for the day, the date [Thursday / June 4, 1981], a sentence [Yesterday I was on television] followed by a drawn picture of someone on a TV. To the left are examples of three columns numbers one through five and words focused on the pronunciation of the letters J, K, and L.
- There are no inscriptions on the print, front or back.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Frank Espada, Puerto Rican, 1930 - 2014
- Date
- June 4, 1981; printed later
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 13 × 19 in. (33 × 48.3 cm)
- Type
- inkjet prints
