Portrait of Langston Hughes
- Photograph by
- Draper, Louis H., American, 1935 - 2002
- Subject of
- Hughes, Langston, American, 1902 - 1967
- Date
- ca. 1960
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Sheet): 10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in. (27.8 x 35.4 cm)
- Description
- A gelatin silver print of Langston Hughes sitting at a desk in front of a typewriter. Hughes is wearing a short sleeve button-up shirt with vertical stripes and holds a pencil in his right hand. Handwritten on reverse side of photograph is [11 x 14 -Outer/350.00/49/32/6/DR 0040/Portrait of Langston Hughes].
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Topic
- Literature
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Courtesy of Nell Winston
- Object number
- 2013.43.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- © The Louis Draper Archive
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