[Photograph album of African American family],
An album of snapshots from an African-American family spanning over five decades from the 1950s until roughly the early 1990s. The few handwritten captions that appears indicate the album is from the Texas/Oklahoma region with Lawton, Oklahoma and San Antonio, Texas mentioned specifically. Contained...
| Format: | Photo |
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | An album of snapshots from an African-American family spanning over five decades from the 1950s until roughly the early 1990s. The few handwritten captions that appears indicate the album is from the Texas/Oklahoma region with Lawton, Oklahoma and San Antonio, Texas mentioned specifically. Contained within are family photos from dances, weddings, and graduations as well as portraits of various friends and family in wallet-sized prints and photographic Christmas cards. Also among the photos are a few of military personnel, some which appear to be Korean-era and others from the Vietnam-era, posing on base, in full uniforms outside family homes, and in army offices. One photo of a group of black soldiers with machine guns is captioned, "need you to help me fire this guy will you? Tell Pat I'll let him shoot 30 caliber." There is also a photo from 1963 of an all-black elementary school class from Lawton, Oklahoma. |
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| Item Description: | Title devised by cataloger. The Cushing Library/Area Studies/Africana copy contains a bookseller's description. |
| Physical Description: | 1 album (112 photoprints) : black and white, color ; 30 x 26 cm |