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Title: African American teen wearing a Boy Scout uniform
Creator: Electric Studio (Denver, Colo)
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918?
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: Real photo postcard of a young African American man wearing a Boy Scout uniform. A studio backdrop in the background. He sports a dark necktie with a small Boy Scout fleur-di-lis tie pin.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
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Manuscript pencil note on verso identifies the young man as Clyde Dillion. The card is addressed to Margaret Betts
Verso has photographers stamp: "Photo by Electric Studio ... Geo. Carsh, Prop. 1704 Curtis, Denver."
Title devised by cataloger.
Denver, Colorado
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb3694581g
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Photographs
Boy Scouts
African Americans
Colorado
Place: Colorado

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