<I>Margarita in a Bilingual Classroom</I>
date: label: Date
content: June 4, 1981; printed later
name: label: Photograph by
content: Frank Espada, Puerto Rican, 1930 - 2014
notes: label: Description
content: A digital print depicting a black-and-white image of a young child, Margarita, crouched on the floor writing in a bilingual classroom with her back to the camera. Wearing a horizontally stripped shirt, pants, and shoes, she is writing on a piece of paper with her proper right hand. The bottom of the blackboard is lined with posters of numbers. Written in chalk on the blackboard are instructions for the day, the date [Thursday / June 4, 1981], a sentence [Yesterday I was on television] followed by a drawn picture of someone on a TV. To the left are examples of three columns numbers one through five and words focused on the pronunciation of the letters J, K, and L.
label: Description
content: There are no inscriptions on the print, front or back.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
label: Cultural Place
content: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Migrations
label: Topic
content: Multilingual communication
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Urban life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: The Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.53.36
objectType: label: Type
content: inkjet prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Frank Espada
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 13 × 19 in. (33 × 48.3 cm)