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Collection of African American Children photographs

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Identifier: MSS 16798

Content Description This collection contains ninety-eight photographs of African American children and families at home and play from about the 1950s to the 1990s. Measurements range from 6" X 4" to 2" X 2" inches and are in color and black and white. Several subjects recur throughout the archive. All are unidentified; only three have any annotations on the back. The photographed figures, primarily children but some family shots included, are captured within their homes or playing outside. Activities include...

Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1950s-1990s

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

African American girl's birthday photograph album

Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 16756

Content Description This collection contains a photo album containing fifteen original black-and-white photographs from the 1960s of a birthday celebration of a young Black girl and her family.Exceptional depiction of an 11 year old's birthday party with all of it's innocence, happiness and absence of the racial world that lives outside the doors of their grandmother's nice home.The children are wearing cone hats and there is dancing, presents, game playing, a birthday cake, blowing out candles, and an...

Dates: 1960s

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

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