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Photo: Scott Leen
Bennie's Grocery Store, in Negro Section of Town, Near Montgomery, Alabama
Photo: Scott Leen

Bennie's Grocery Store, in Negro Section of Town, Near Montgomery, Alabama

Datenegative 1940, printed 1977
Object number83.160
Provenance[Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, Washington]; purchased by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1983
Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 200 Photographs from the Museum Collection, Dec. 8, 1983 - Feb. 5, 1984. Text by Rod Slemmons. No cat. no. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Go Tell It: Civil Rights Photography, Apr. 30, 2016 - Jan. 2, 2017. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Semiotics of the Street, Feb. 4 - July 17, 2022.
Credit LinePacific Northwest Bell, the Photography Council, the Polaroid Foundation, Mark Abrahamson, and the National Endowment for the Arts
Dimensions9 1/16 x 11 15/16 in. (23 x 30.4 cm)
MediumGelatin silver print
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Object number: 2000.39
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1965
Object number: 2000.36
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1965
Object number: 2000.42
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Crossroads Store, Alabama
1937
Object number: 87.104
Image Not Available for Rev. and Mrs. Abernathy, U.N. Ambassador Ralph Bunche, Dr. and Mrs. King, and Rev. Frederick Reese Entering Montgomery on Oak St., March 25th, 1965
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1965
Object number: 2000.35
Image Not Available for Waiting to be Paid for Picking Cotton, Store on Marcella Plantation, Milston, Mississippi
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1939
Object number: 83.158
Photo: Scott Leen
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negative 1939, printed 1977
Object number: 86.225
Image Not Available for Negro Houses, Outskirts of Tupelo, Mississippi
Negro Houses, Outskirts of Tupelo, Mississippi
1936
Object number: 85.344
Image Not Available for Business Manager Paying Off Cotton Pickers in Plantation Store, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta
Business Manager Paying Off Cotton Pickers in Plantation Store, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta
1939
Object number: 2022.24.8
Sharecroppers Family, Hale County, Alabama
Sharecroppers Family, Hale County, Alabama
1936
Object number: 83.153
Photo: Scott Leen
Restaurant, Alabama
1936
Object number: 85.340
Photo: Scott Leen
Photographer's Window of Penny Portraits, Birmingham, Alabama
1936; modern print from original negative in Farm Security Administration, Offic
Object number: 85.343