Dolores Hobley Collection

A head shot studio portrait of Emma Williams sitting sideways on a chair and turning to her right so her hands rest on the back of the chair. She wears a large hat with feathers cascading off of the back, a high collar, and a lace blouse. She wears a large ring on her middle finger on her left hand.

Rings are being exchange between a soldier and a woman in a wedding dress and veil. The minister is also in uniform. The maid of honor wears a floral dress and a flower in her hair. The windows of the church are opened both at the top and the bottom.

An unidentified group of six African American men, four African American women, a boy and a dog in front of the porch of a house. The women sit in chairs and the men stand behind the chairs. All of the men wear bowler hats. The boys head is only visible between the shoulders of the two women to the left.

Family portrait of three African American women and two African American men.

An unidentified group of well-dressed six African American women, three African American men, three boys and a teenaged girl as they stand or sit in the yard by the porch of a clapboard house behind them. The house has a trellis with ivy growing on it behind them. There is an enclosed balcony above the group on the second story.

An unidentified African American man and woman sit on a sofa smiling at the photographer as the woman holds a baby on her lap. The man has his left arm across the top of the sofa behind the woman's shoulders.

An unidentified group of fifteen African American women sit and stand around one end of a banquet table with a tablecloth at an unidentified venue with a low ceiling during an unidentified event. Seven of the women wear hats. Five of the women wear a corsage of a single rose bud. Seated at the left corner of the table is Bridget. Seated third from the right corner of the photograph is Louise. Louise wears a necklace of several strands of pearls. A woman standing second from the right wears one strand of pearls. The two women seated farthest to the left both wear necklaces of three strands of pearls. All of the women wear earrings. There are opened gifts on the table with a bouquet in the center. Only salt and pepper shakers and glasses of water are on the table with the gifts. The only woman not smiling is the woman farthest to the right. She wears elbow-length dark gloves.

Five African American male fire fighters in their uniforms, pose for a photograph with a fire engine. Two fire fighters sit in the driver's and passenger's seats of the fire engine while two stand along the side and one stands on the back running board just outside the garage door opening to Engine House No. 1. The letters painted on the hood of the fire engine are K.C.F.D. The building behind the fire engine and next door to the fire house has "Wholesale Dickerson Cleaning" painted on the brick wall. An African American man leans on a light post outside the front door of Dickerson Cleaning.

Five well-dressed unidentified African American men are outdoors in front of a window in a brick wall side of a building. The three in back stand and the two in front crouch. Only the two standing to the left smile at the photographer. The other three look seriously off to the left. Note the lapel button holding the chain to the breast pocket and the tie tacks.

Five very well-dressed unidentified African American men stand on the steps to a school or church. One stands in the front in an overcoat looking up and to the left. The other four stand on the first step looking forward except the one directly to the left of the man in the front. That man is looking down and talking to the man in the front.