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The Harry and Lillian Duplessis Collection at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History contains photographic and manuscript materials documenting the couple’s personal lives. There is very little in the collection that documents the couples professional careers as employees of the Detroit court system. The majority of the collection are photographs of Lillian and [...] [...] < 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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