Couple Celebrates Golden Anniversary: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An undated newspaper article on the celebration of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Anderson (Buck) and Amanda Carey Carter. The headline reads [Couple Celebrate Golden Anniversary]. To the right of three short columns of text is a photograph portrait of the couple. The caption reads [Mr. and Mrs. Willie Anderson (Buck) Carter, of the Abilene community, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Satur-], the end of the caption is cut off.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: July 1981
• Published by: Farmville Herald, American, founded 1890
• Subject of: Amanda Carey Carter, American, 1909 - 2007
• Type: clippings
• Medium: ink on newsprint
• Dimensions: H x W: 3 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (9.5 x 23.5 cm)
• Place depicted: Abilene, Charlotte County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Baptist
• Topic: Black Enterprise
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Families
• Topic: Marriage customs and rites
• Topic: Medicine
• Topic: Men
• Object number: 2011.75.35
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Fannie Mae Carter Silver
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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