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Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle Smartphone Tour
A smartphone tour is available on your own device for free. Select a thematic tour or enter the number next to selected artworks to access multimedia content exploring the archival sources that inspired Lawrence in creating the Struggle series. Additionally, there is an audio tour of verbal descriptions of the artworks for low/no vision visitors. Free SAM wifi is available at the museum. Please use headphones in the galleries.

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle Interactive Experience
Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. For best experience, please view on desktop in Chrome or IE. You may need to zoom in or out in your browser.

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