<I>Pure Joy</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1970-1989; printed later
name: label: Photograph by
content: John H. White, American, born 1945
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Child or Children
notes: label: Description
content: This gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of a child at a street baptism. The child is bending backwards with his face toward the sky and his hands on his head. He is smilling as water dropplets fall down on and around him. There are no inscriptions, front or back.
place: label: Place captured
content: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Play
label: Topic
content: Urban life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of John H. White/Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.118.5
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © John H. White
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 7 1/4 × 10 3/16 in. (18.4 × 25.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)