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Drum Majors, Hampton Institute, Virginia, 1948. The Picture collection began to assist Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in documenting African American culture in 1931 and built a large stock of imagery on the subject for its own files. Picture Collection transfer (1992) to the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

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