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Norma’s husband, Clarence Gatliff, was a swimming coach at the Brewster Center, a recreation center for black youth in Detroit, Michigan. According to a biography written to commemorate Norma’s 80th birthday celebration, Norma was involved in helping to organize and fundraise for the Rifle Club and other art, swimming and field and stream events. Clarence [...] [...] Horace L. Sheffield Jr. studio portrait c. 1917. Horace L. Sheffield Jr. (on far left) with presumably family members c. 1935 Horace L. Sheffield Jr. on steps of predominate building tipping his hat c. 1936 Horace L. Sheffield Jr. balancing on a rock at water’s edge c. 1936. Horace L. Sheffield Jr. (center) swimming presumably with friends c. 1936. Horace [...] [...] A group photo of children in one of Detroit’s public parks. Clarence Gatliff, over his long career in Detroit’s Parks and Recreation Department, worked extensively with children in many of the cities public parks and swimming pools. [...] We have added a selection of the Sam Vinegar Photograph Collection to our digital collections. The Sam Vinegar Collection contains formal mounted images from Africa, an African postcard series, the Harold “Beans” Bowles collection of both signed and unsigned publicity photos of African American performers, miscellaneous certificates / letters /clippings, professional prints of schoolhouses, offices [...] [...] < Click Image for Larger View > These photos, found in the Walter Lawrence Smith collection, show a wedding that looks to have taken place in 1950. A note penciled on the back of one of the images in this collection tells us Mrs. Essleman and Mrs. Bates were interested in purchasing wedding photos. We might [...] [...] < Click Image for Larger View > As we can see from these photos found in the Walter Lawrence Smith collection, wedding photography has changed little in the last sixty years. Typical photos include pictures of the bride and groom and their families – which provide a record of who the family was at the time [...] [...] < Click Image for Larger View > These wedding photos from the Walter Lawrence Smith collection looks a lot like modern wedding photos. In fact, the wedding industry as we know it today took shape in the 1920s-1950s, as modern technology put more spare change in people’s pockets. Following World War II, an economic surge through [...] [...] |
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