Couple looking at each other in the eyes

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Repository

LaBudde Special Collections

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Description

An African American male soldier, wearing dress uniform with his hat in his left hand, stands and looks into the eyes of a African American woman in a white evening gown and white gloves that extend above her elbows, perhaps a wedding reception photo. She also looks slightly up into his eyes. There is a mirror on the wall behind them and a couch and smoking stand on the left side of the photograph. Two signs are behind the soldier. One says, Please present I.D. card to doorman." The other sign is partially obscured by the soldier. What can be seen says, "No one allowed in the [lue] room …"

Member of

Dolores Hobley Collection

Language English

Date Published

1951

1960

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Subject, Old

African American men

African American women

Evening gowns

Military uniforms

Signs and signboards

Time Period

1951-1960

Notes

No date; likely circa 1950s, 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-336.tif

Genres

Color photographs

Snapshots

Type

photographs