Photograph of Mother's Day event at Hot 97: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A photograph of a Mother's Day event at Hot 97. Ed Lover is in the back row on the far left of the photo, he is wearing a black and white striped shirt. Lover's mother, Mrs. Roberts, is standing to the right of Lover. Doctor Dré’s mother, Mrs. Brown, is standing to the right of Mrs. Roberts. She is wearing a hat with a flower and glasses. Doctor Dré is standing to the right of his mother and is wearing a short sleeve t shirt. Curt Flint is standing to the right of Dré. He has his proper right arm around Dré and his proper left arm around his mother who is standing on the far right. Lisa G.'s mother Eleanor Sylvan is standing on the far left of the photo in the front row. Lisa G. is standing to Sylvan's right. Wayne Mayo is standing in front and to the right of Lisa G. He is wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt. His mother, Mrs. Mayo, is to the right of Wayne Mayo. The group is standing in front of a wall lined with possibly tapes or cassettes. The back of the photograph is printed with the text [Long Life 100] and [Konica] in diagonal lines.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1995
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Lisa Glasberg, American, born 1956
• Subject of: Ed Lover, American, born 1963
• Subject of: Doctor Dré, born 1963
• Signed by: Curt Flirt, American
• Subject of: Wayne Mayo, American
• Subject of: Hot 97, American, founded 1948
• Type: chromogenic color prints
• Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: L x W: 4 × 6 in. (10.2 × 15.2 cm)
• Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Journalism
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Radio
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2020.30.3.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lisa G.
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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