Musician: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white photograph of a musician sitting at a piano during Poor People's Campaign.

He is sitting in profile and has curly hair and a goatee. He is wearing glasses and a beanie and has a cigarette in his mouth. He is hunched forward. There is a person in the foreground. They are wearing boots and the proper right leg is bent and resting on an unseen surface. Their proper right hand is holding onto a metal bar. There is another person who appears to be sitting on top of the piano. They are holding onto a cigarette.

There is a thin border around the image. The back of the photograph is blank.

There is a white border around the image. It is signed "Laura Jones" on the proper left side under the image. The back of the photograph is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1968
• Photograph by: Laura Jones, Canadian American, born 1948
• Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
• Type: giclée prints
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 13 × 19 in. (33 × 48.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 12 × 17 1/2 in. (30.5 × 44.5 cm)
• Place captured: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Musicians
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2017.109.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Laura Jones Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.