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Alice Cecilia Willett

Image

A studio portrait of Alice Cecilia Willett sitting sideways with her ankles crossed smiling over her left shoulder at the photographer. A tropical...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

All bundled up in the snow

Image

An unidentified African American woman, from her left side, is all bundled up in a winter hat with the brim turned up all the way round and a full...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Bennie and Lizzie in the garden at Marland Estate

Image

Bennie sits on a tacked quarter horse while Lizzie stands to their left with a dog in front of her outside the Marland Estate in the garden or...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Brown Chapel Choir

Image

Members of the Brown Chapel Choir posed in choir robes (includes Aritha Anne Dorsey-Clayton and Simeon O. Clayton)

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Bundled up woman standing in the snow in the yard in front of a house

Image

An unidentified African American woman bundled up in a plush winter coat with a fur collar, boots, and a hat stands without smiling in the snow in the...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Chevrolet Coupe

Image

An unidentified African American woman behind the wheel of a 1920s Chevrolet Coupe on brick pavement. Trees are behind the car.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Cornelia in the garden

Image

Neal [Cornelia Scott], an African American woman, is slightly bent while she is standing in a field of flowers in a casual, sleeveless floral dress...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Cornelia sits on a wall in a garden with a friend

Image

Neal [Cornelia Scott], with her left arm around a dog, sits on a rock wall to the right of an unidentified African American woman standing in an...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Diagonally cut button placard on a women's suit

Image

A studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman wearing a light-colored suit with diagonal points along the button placard to form layers...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal H. Davis and his mother

Image

Dowdal H. Davis and his mother in the yard outside of a house. His mother sits in a bentwood garden chair wearing a bell hat, gloves, a lavalier...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal H. Davis and his mother

Image

Dowdal H. Davis and his mother in the yard outside of a house. His mother sits in a bentwood garden chair wearing a bell hat, gloves, a lavalier...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal H. Davis' mother in sleeveless, v-neck dress

Image

The mother of Dowdal H. Davis stands by a bentwood chair outside in the yard wearing a bell hat, gloves, a lavalier necklace, and a light colored...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal H. Davis' mother relaxes in a bentwood chair

Image

The mother of Dowdal H. Davis in the yard outside of a house. She sits in a bentwood garden chair wearing a bell hat, gloves, a lavalier necklace, and...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Dowdal H. Davis' mother sits on the arm of a bentwood chair

Image

The mother of Dowdal H. Davis, from her left side, in the yard outside of a house sits on the arm of a bentwood garden chair wearing a bell hat...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Eight people posing for a photograph

Image

An unidentified group of five African American women and three African American men are gathered in a group between two clapboard houses for a...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Florence, Thad, and Mayme

Image

An African American man (Thad), wearing a light colored suit and hat, crouches down to pet a small dog, between two African American women (Florence...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Four people rest on a log fence

Image

An unidentified African American man sits on a log fence that continues down the stairs as a bannister to what is possibly a lake below with people...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Four people stand by a lake

Image

An unidentified African American man and three unidentified African American women stand, unsmiling, by a lake. A fisherman on a dock is behind right...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Four woman stand together smiling

Image

Four unidentified African American women smile as they stand together by stacks of rock behind them. The second woman from the right holds the wrists...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Group by cars parked under the trees

Image

A smiling group of four unidentified African American women, two African American men and a girl in front of three cars parked under the trees. Two...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Group laughing together on the rocks by the water

Image

An unidentified African American man wearing a two-piece swimsuit squats in front of an unidentified group of four African American women and one...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Group posing for a photograph

Image

A group photograph of unidentified African American women, children and an African American man posing outdoors among trees, mostly seated, on their...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Hand painted photograph

Image

A hand painted studio head shot portrait of an unidentified African American woman wearing a robin egg blue dress and a string of pearls. The...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Head shot portrait of a woman

Image

A studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman wearing her hair back, a pearl necklace, and a top with beads embroidered on the bodice.

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Head shot portrait of a woman looking at the photographer over her left shoulder

Image

A studio portrait of an unidentified African American woman looking over her left shoulder at the photographer. She wears eyeglasses, earrings, a bead...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

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  • African American women

Member of

  • Dolores Hobley Collection (63)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (9)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (73)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (72)
  • Gelatin silver prints (71)
  • Snapshots (56)
  • Group portraits (36)
  • Portrait photographs (32)
  • Card photographs (1)
  • Color photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1921-1930 (63)
  • 1911-1920 (1)

Subjects

  • African American men (26)
  • Automobiles (8)
  • Dogs (6)
  • Dwellings (6)
  • Bentwood furniture (5)
  • Bathing suits (4)
  • Buildings (4)
  • Benches (3)
  • Gardens (3)
  • Mothers (3)
  • Umbrellas (3)
  • Uniforms (3)
  • Women household employees (3)
  • African American children (2)
  • Beaches (2)
  • Bodies of water (2)
  • Cameras (2)
  • Fur garments (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Lakes (2)
  • Porches (2)
  • Snow (2)
  • African Americans (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Battlefield monuments (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Church buildings (1)
  • Cities and towns (1)
  • Clutch bags (1)
  • Cooks (1)
  • Couples (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Fishers (1)
  • Flowering trees (1)
  • Fraternal organizations (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Granddaughters (1)
  • Grandmothers (1)
  • Lawn chairs (1)
  • Mansions (1)
  • Mothers and sons (1)
  • Native American men (1)
  • Pampas grasses (1)
  • Parks (1)
  • Quarter horse (1)
  • Sheds (1)
  • Sisters (1)
  • Stone walls (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) African American women (73)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Marland Estate (Ponca City, Okla.) (8)
  • Independence (Kan.) (5)
  • Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)
  • Ponca City (Okla.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Scott, Cornelia (7)
  • Davis, Dowdal H. (Dowdal Henry), 1913-1957 (2)
  • Clayton, Simeon Oliver (1)
  • Dorsey-Clayton, Aritha Anne (1)
  • McShann, Dutch (1)
  • Pleasonton, Alfred, 1824-1897 (1)
  • Tucker, Thad (1)
  • Willett, Alice Cecilia (1)

Date Published

  • 1930 (72)
  • 1911 (1)
  • (-) 1921 (73)

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