Image / African American man sitting on a mine shaft opening

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Title: African American man sitting on a mine shaft opening
Creator: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920?
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 an African American man sitting on the opening to a mine shaft in the western United States. The man is neatly dressed in a light plaid shirt with a necktie, he sports suspenders and a watch fob. A cat rests in the foreground.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
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Title devised by cataloger.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb96673267
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Miners
Photographs
African Americans
Mine shafts

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