The wonderful photos kept coming. For several weeks, black and white photos with a mix of people, events and celebrations turned up on the auction table. An auction-house staffer told me that a dealer brought them…
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Picture Stories: Dance Carnival at Madison Square Garden, 1941
Posted in Black history, dance, and Photos
The wonderful photos kept coming. For several weeks, black and white photos with a mix of people, events and celebrations turned up on the auction table. An auction-house staffer told me that a dealer brought them…
Faces from an early black movie poster, but whose?
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Movies, and Photos
The image of the black police officer with a raised gun was the first to spark a memory. I had seen that image somewhere, but where? Someone had cut the picture from another poster and…
Where I come from, Bibb County, GA, you won’t likely see photos of black and white children in the same class before the 1960s. That just did not happen in the South – especially not in…
Cleveland society through lens of Jimmy Baynes
Posted in Black history, and Photos
I was flipping through a box of photos of African Americans posing at fancy events when I decided to flip one of them over to see if it was identified. Most times, folks don’t bother…
A friend of mine took a trip a few months ago to Niagara Falls. I believe it was her first time there, and though she enjoyed going, she didn’t seem too impressed with the falls.…
The children were just adorable. Photographer John W. Mosley had captured them in their fashion best, on their way perhaps to church on an Easter morning in early spring. They were a proud group, marching…
Nice dress. That’s what I thought when I saw the first photo inside one of those lovely paper frames from decades ago in a box at the auction house. The woman wearing the dress stood…
When I saw the photo it took my breath away. That’s how powerful it was, even though the image simply showed fragile faded pages covered in weather-beaten leather held together with an equally worn strap. I had…