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Classroom setting at Western Seminary

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Repository
LaBudde Special Collections
An African American male instructor wearing a three-piece suit, stands in the center back teaching clerical skills to a class of African American co-ed students in a classroom at the Western Baptist Seminary, 2119 Tracy Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. There is a mimeograph machine at the back wall and a typewriter on a table. The other students are writing with pen or pencil and paper. The females wear anklet socks and flat shoes. "Hall's Photo Service" is printed on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph. "Love you so" is written in pencil on the top right of the photograph.
Date Note
No date; likely 1950s
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection
Image Credit
Hall's Photo Service
Date Published
1949
1951
Time Period
1941-1950
1951-1960
Filename
umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-033.tif
Notes

No date; likely 1950s, Related range: P28-51; laminated; part of assembled binder titled "Western Baptist Seminary / K.C.M.O. / Chorus Director / Mrs. D.A. Holmes.", Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 26 cm
Genres
Gelatin silver prints
Black & white photographs
Group portraits
Type
photographs
Subject (Geographic)
Kansas City (Mo.)
English

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