Photograph of Langston Hughes [graphic], 1925.

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Photograph of Langston Hughes [graphic], 1925.

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Publicity photograph of Hughes in his busboy uniform at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D. C., is captioned "Negro bus boy is poetry prize winner." Accompanying text reads "One night he was just one of the Negro bus boys scurrying here and there with empty dishes...and the next day he was Langston Hughes, prize winner of a poetry competition conducted by a magazine of national circulation...."

1 photograph : silver gelatin; 23 x 18cm.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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