Thelma Harrison, the first cousin of Walter White, a Director at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Jeanne Goodwin, social workers at Bethelhem Center in Nashville, Tennessee and former Fisk University roommates, 1926
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by hand in red ink, "#27 p. 107" in upper right on verso; Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "Social workers Bethleham Center Nashville, TN 1926" in top center on verso; Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "L. to R. Thelma Harrison (first cousin of Walter White, NAACP Natl Director), Jeanne Goodwin (former Fisk University roommates)" in lower center on verso
Looks like a couple of fair skin Black women posing for photo.
Purpose: Posing for photo
Community Elder Tags: Two, women, ties, knicker bockers, brick, wall, rail, posing, light skin. socks, shoes, smiles, steps
Bobby Eaton, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
Community Youth Tags: brick wall, bobbed hair, brown hair, matching outfits yellow stripped blazer, yellow stripped shorts, yellow collared shirt, knee high socks, dark socks, tap shoes, stripped ties, thin straight hair, steps
Sofia Fermo, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
Dates
- 1926
Extent
1 Photographic Prints : Sepia tinted, black and white; Leaf 11
Language of Materials
English
Credit Line
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Previous Number 1
TL2019.20
- American
- Goodwin, Jeanne (Depicted)
- Harrison, Thelma (Depicted)
- Jeanne Goodwin
- Nashville
- Photograph
- Posing for photo
- Tennessee -- TN
- The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection
- Thelma Harrison
- Two
- bobbed hair
- brick
- brick wall
- brown hair
- dark socks
- knee high socks
- knicker bockers
- light skin
- matching outfits yellow stripped blazer
- posing
- rail
- shoes
- smiles
- socks
- steps
- stripped ties
- tap shoes
- thin straight hair
- ties
- wall
- women
- yellow collared shirt
- yellow stripped shorts
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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