Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photocopy of a portrait of the Cotten family
1902; printed later
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, 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.
Photocopy of a studio portrait of a family of nine people. All of the people are identified and labeled using black ink. Tom Cotten and Sallie Cotten sit in the middle with their daughters sitting and standing around them. The girls are identified as (left to right): Myrtle (seated), Carrie, Mildred, Loula, Elizabeth, and Susie (seated). A small boy identified as Ernest Cotten sits on a small stool in front of Tom and Sallie. Written below the image is “The Cotten Family 1902.”
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Catalog reference: 2013.79.22
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