Digital image of Hal Singer in Paris with Eddie Faye Gates: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Digital image of a photograph of musician and Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Hal Singer in Paris with Eddie Faye Gates. Eddie Faye Gates stands at left wearing eyeglasses and a garment with white, brown, and gray-blue horizontal stripes with red sticker. She is arm-in-arm with Singer, who wears tinted eyeglasses, a dark blue and white-striped button-down shirt with a light blue jacket. In the background are decorative columns, arches, wrought iron, and lamps. Image of back of photograph has repeating [Kodak / XTRALIFE PAPER] watermark. Also on back of photograph at top right, handwritten in black ink is [Paris, France / June 2006]. Accompanying image of memo paper notes [TRR / Survivor / Hal Singer / Paris / 2006].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2006
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Eddie Faye Gates, American, 1934 - 2021
• Subject of: Hal Singer, 1919 - 2020
• Owned by: Eddie Faye Gates, American, 1934 - 2021
• Type: portraits
• Type: digital images
• Type: digital media - born analog
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: File size (overall): 34.67 MB
• Place depicted: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
• Place captured: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Tulsa Race Massacre
• Topic: U.S. History, 2001-
• Object number: 2014.117.9
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa OK, author, historian, community activist
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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