Roscoe Simmons (third from left) posing with Perry W. Howard (far right), Walter L. Cohen (third from right), and three unidentified men on Beale Avenue, Memphis, 1912
Dates
- Creation: 1912
Creator
Access
Open for research.
Extent
1 photographs : gelatin silver print on cardboard mount ; ; print 14 x 18 cm, mount 21 x 26 cm)Biographical / Historical
Established by Henry A. Hooks Sr. and his brother Robert B. Hooks, Hooks Brothers Photography studio operated on Beale Street for over 40 years and became the second oldest African American owned business in Memphis before it closed in 1984.
General note
Identification of Perry W. Howard and Walter L. Cohen based on other photographs. Damaged.
Source of information
Title devised.
Repository Details
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