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Woman smiling as she sits at a piano holding a violin

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Description
An unidentified African American woman smiles as she is seated on a baby grand piano bench and leaning her left elbow just above the piano keys as she holds a violin with her left hand and holds the bow with her right hand resting on her lap. She has a flower in her hair on the right side above her ear. She wears a necklace, a wrist watch on her right wrist, and a full-length, full-skirt light-colored evening gown with puffed sleeves and a sweetheart neckline. A desk lamp sits on the piano. A picture of a palm-lined street is on the wall above the piano. A floor lampshade is on the very right side of the photograph.
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection
Date Published
1951
1960
Subject, Old
African American women
Violinists
Piano
Violin
Time Period
1951-1960
Notes

No date; likely circa 1950, See also P25., Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
1 photograph : black and white print ; 18 x 13 cm
Filename
umkc_lsc_hobley_photo-024.tif
Genres
Gelatin silver prints
Black & white photographs
Portrait photographs
Type
photographs
English
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