Photograph of members of the American Woodmen, Georgetown Camp No. 4: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black and white gelatin silver print of members of the American Woodmen group, Georgetown Camp No. 4. The image is of seventeen men and women sitting and standing around a podium with a banner on it. All the people in the photograph are dressed formally with the men wearing suits or tuxedos and the women wearing dresses. The podium and the banner are at the center of the photograph. The banner reads “GEORGETOWN CAMP / No. 4 / AMERICAN WOODMEN / WASHINGTON. D.C. / ORGANIZED OCT. 20 / 1922.” The back of the photograph is stamped with red ink which reads “A.H. BROWN, JR. / Photographer / WASHINGTON, D. C.” Handwritten inscriptions are also on the back of the photograph in black ink. Written on the top left corner of the back is “3” and “Jan 1954.” Written on the back at center is “J.C.M.”

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1954
• Photograph by: A. H. Brown Jr., American, born 1908
• Subject of: Supreme Camp of American Woodmen, American, 1901 - 1994
• Subject of: Georgetown Camp No. 4, American, founded 1922
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Type: black-and-white photographs
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 7 13/16 × 9 13/16 in. (19.9 × 24.9 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (sheet): 8 3/16 × 10 in. (20.8 × 25.4 cm)
• Place captured: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Societies
• Object number: 2017.1.6
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Long Gallery Harlem
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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