Photo shows an image in sepia tones of a Black couple, the man holding a shawl around the shoulders of a woman. Both wear dapper hats. The front lower right corner has a small stamp of the name of the...
The image shows a Black American soldier in uniform with his Kepi Hat on a bench. The kepi cap has an affixed 10th Calvary emblem. I believe the size of photo mount and the soldier’s uniform uniform dates this from...
Button says “Democratic Presidential Debate” “January 7 1980, Des Moines IA” and shows portraits of the three candidates Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Brown, with their names under their portrait.
Photo postcard taken outside showing 6 men in coats and ties and hats, three seated, three standing behind them, all in front of the slats of a wooden house sent to Edward Rudd, 710 Norris Street, Ottumwa iowa
front: cdv portrait of a young, dark-skinned girl. She is dressed elegantly with earrings and a lace collar. Back: black cardboard with gold decoration and writing: “James, Photographer, Iowa City, Iowa. Negatives retained for future orders”
Photograph of a White man standing next to a wicker chair with a painted backdrop to his right. The back drop is a narrow curtain with a painting of a window and shades and a stylized plant and crazy plant...
Tintype photograph of a man with ruddy cheeks and an intense look, placed in an oval frame. Studio portrait. Under the photo is stamped: Baird & Twiford South-East Corner 4th and Jefferson Sts Burlington, Iowa Back shows that it was...
This studio photo shows four solemn young White boys in a prop of a row boat, with an strange elaborate back drop of a river scene. The right edge has the studio name “E.J. Ford, Opposite Post Office, Grundy Center,...
1955 Media Photo Dora Lee Martin wears the “Queen of Queens” crown. This is an original media photo. Dora Lee Martin, University of Iowa, wears the “Queen of Queens” crown after her coronation. The 17 year old Negro student was...
front: cdv, studio photograph of Black man, standing near brocaded furniture in studio, holding his hat. At the bottom front, someone has written in pen “Aaron Cook” Ornate back of cdv advertises “Park’s Ground Floor Gallery, Opposite Page County Bank,...
Studio portrait of a Black man, soft focus. back: “from E. Cutter’s Art Gallery, corner Main and Fourth Streets. Dubuque, Iowa. Copying and Enlarging Small Pictures a Speciality.
front: young Black woman posing in a studio, wearing a plaid dress, full length portrait. Bottom of photo says “O.H. Park Clarinda, Iowa” Back is blank.
Tiny horizontal oval format of a young Black couple. Lower left corner is sligthly cut down but the words are legible “200 East Locust Street, Des Moines, Iowa”. The word above has been partially cut-off: “__ODGE”s. On back, pencil writing...
Photo shows a studio shot of a Black woman wearing a jaunty white hat and white dress. She stands behind a wooden stile of tree branches and in front of a backdrop of a water scene with sailboats.
Tintype shows a dapper Black man on a bench posing for his photograph. The background is a dropcloth with a picture of a scene with a ticket booth and the words “NY State Fair 1903”. Whether the grass below his...
Photograph shows two children, a standing girl and a seated boy, each holding a toy. The girl holds something that looks like perhaps a ceramic bird. The boy holds the handle of a small two-wheeled toy wagon. In the wagon,...
The photograph is a studio shot of a young girl, race undetermined, head only and without a background. In gold under the photo is written: “J.W. Dyer, Earlville Iowa”
This cdv portrait was cut to be placed on on an oval format on rectangular black cardstock. The photo shows a young Black man in a stand-up collar, jacket, and tie,The lower right corner has gold lettering “J. W. Kramer....
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