Object Details
- Photograph by
- Charles "Teenie" Harris, American, 1908 - 1998
- Subject of
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Description
- A black and white photograph of a group of children receiving vaccinations. The children are formed in a line. Three unidentified women stand with the children. An unidentified man sits at a wooden table covered in white cloth with two columns of syringes on top. The man sits with his back away from the camera and sticks a syringe into the proper left arm of a girl at the front of the line while the woman standing to the girl's proper right rests a hand on her proper left shoulder. There is an imprint of a palm tree in the bottom right corner of the border on the front of the photograph. The back of the photograph has an inscription, by hand, of the numbers: [531], [531.01], and a photographer's stamp.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Charles A. Harris and Beatrice Harris in memory of Charles "Teenie" Harris
- ca. 1955
- Object number
- 2014.302.6
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles "Teenie" Harris Archive
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 13 × 16 in. (33 × 40.6 cm)
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- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Black Press
- Children
- Health
- Medicine
- Photography
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2014.302.6
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5507c0f6a-23e1-415f-acae-e534d60d86c1
