Photograph of Eliza Stephens, Florence Stephens Bryant, and other family members

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Black and white group photograph of Jackie Bryant Smith's mother, Florence Stephens Bryant, and grandmother, Eliza Bradshaw Stephens, along with aunts and cousins for the "Milestones" magazine produced by the Council of Churches, Wichita. Five of the women stand in front of a backdrop of an outdoor scene, while the three other women sit in front of them. White printed paper found with object reads “Wichita, Kansas – 1925/ My mother, grandmother and aunts & cousins were in Milestones./ Standing in the picture L-R: number 4 was my grandmother,/ Eliza Bradshaw Stevens, my mothers mother from Linn Creek, Mo/ In the pageant were:/ Florence Stevens Bryant, my mother/ Ethel Case, Odessa Jones, cousins/ Julia Case, Hattie Jones, aunts/ Picture is ripped and there are tabs on the upper corners of the picture./ The original program is to fragile to send so I made a copy.”

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