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Photographic print of Harper Franklin, Beatrice Coleman and Beatrice Dedman

African American Museum

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    Object Details

    Photograph by

    Unidentified

    Subject of

    Harper Franklin
    Beatrice Coleman, American, 1892 - unknown
    Beatrice Cloman Dedman, American, 1895 - 1990

    Description

    A black-and-white portrait-style photograph of three (3) young women. The young women are wearing light-colored dresses, and each has a corsage pinned to her bodice at upper-left. The woman in the center, Beatrice Cloman, is wearing glasses and is seated. The woman on the left is leaning towards Cloman with her hands behind her back. The woman on the right, Beatrice Dedman, also is leaning towards the center of the photograph with her hands behind her back, touching heads with the other woman. At the bottom of the photograph, the photographer's name, location, and date is printed, partially illegibly [TYLER DERMOTT ARK. 1915]. At bottom, the names of the women are hand-written in ink: [Harper Franklin [[?]]/ Coleman [sic]/ Beatrice Dedman [sic]].

    Credit Line

    Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman

    Date

    1915

    Object number

    2014.75.92

    Restrictions & Rights

    No Known Copyright Restrictions
    Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

    Type

    photographs
    portraits

    Medium

    photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper mounted to cardboard

    Dimensions

    H x W: 6 1/8 × 4 1/4 in. (15.6 × 10.8 cm)

    Place made

    Dermott, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America

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    National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

    Collection title

    The Princetta R. Newman Collection of Family Photographs, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Classification

    Photographs and Still Images

    Data Source

    National Museum of African American History and Culture

    Topic

    African American
    American South
    American West
    Communities

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5b19132e0-dc73-4f5a-abb1-fd87a73c59a6

    Record ID

    nmaahc_2014.75.92

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