Page of a photograph album from Tulsa, Oklahoma: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Six black-and-white photographs of various sizes mounted on black construction paper. Left to right and top to bottom: Two young women leaning against a wooden fence. Two young women and one young man standing together with his arm around their waists, with a second man in the background. Older woman standing in front of a porch in a white dress and hat. Two young women and one man standing together in a park. Street scene of a parade with a marching band. Young women leaning against a tree looking off to the left with her right hand on her hip and her left hand resting on it.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1940
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Owned by: J. Kavin Ross, American
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Type: photograph albums
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on construction paper, adhesive
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
• Place depicted: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Domestic life
• Topic: Families
• Topic: Marching bands (Music)
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2011.175.17.7a-f
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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