Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of Mae Reeves and a group of women standing on stairs
ca. 1950
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white photograph of seven women standing on an a flight of stairs. Mae Reeves stands to the farthest right on the lowest step and wears a white hat and floral patterned handbag. The women are all well dressed and wearing hats, two of the women in the front are also carrying hatboxes. Embossed in the lower left corner of the photo is [HALL AND HALL / PHOTO SERVICE / PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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Catalog reference: 2010.6.45
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