Main Exhibit Hall

Description:

Photograph of several Black visitors viewing the exhibits in the old Charleston Museum on a Sunday. Brown shot the image from the second floor gallery and also captured the skeletal mount of the North Atlantic right whale. African American adults were only allowed to visit on certain days until the Museum was fully integrated in the 1960s.

• Title: Main Exhibit Hall
• Photographer: Brown, Robert Adamson, 1902-1978
• Date: April 23, 1950

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: The Old Museum
• Object Id: MK 18510l
• Address: 121 Rutledge Avenue

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