Likely the steps of a dormitory w/ den mother prominent center top row. Hampton University is home to the oldest African Diaspora museum in the U.S. and very famous amongst its graduates is Booker T....
ALL motion and energy, captured by one shutter a hundred years ago. Over ambitious carnies and a trade mag stunt makes sense. The photographer is shaking so hard that only the snake’s open...
Iconic.
Measures 7.25 x 11.25” with significant creases bottom right (corner and edge), top right edge and single puncture buried in the trees top left. Displays well.
Found in a California estate.
Absolutely textbook example.
Measures 2 7/8 x 3 7/8”. Very nice condition with outstanding tones and details.
Identified Hazel in pen almost like a name badge.
Exceptional evidence and unusually aesthetic composition. African Americans were finally admitted into the Red Cross in 1919, a response to the nursing need created by the Spanish Flu epidemic. This image dates to just a...
Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) was an early titan in the fields of electricity and transportation, by this time with projects all over the world. Presumably shot by the Westinghouse commercial / factory photographer for...
Speaks loudly. Captures the tension of the shop owner at register, the photographer who rather progressively for the time includes the African American customer (likely a domestic) and she with down turned eyes and folded hands who seems...
Scarce and poignant. When read closely, these are a seldom captured portrait of American womanhood and then in comparison between two parallel cultures. One woman much more in control of this low budget photo shoot...
1. Holy Mother in the Mountains / July 26th Armband Photo Montage. (Measures 4 x 6", surface scratches and minor foxing right edge). Signed St. Naranjo. 2. Raul / Field GRANMA Yacht (Also 4...