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PHOTODESCRIPTIONUNIT — Box: HUM 2.85 Box 1, Box: Folder 10 Identifier: HUM 2, HUM 2.85, HUM 2.85 (58)

Roscoe Simmons (second row, center, with walking stick) and Walter L. Cohen (second row, in white coat, next to Simmons) in a group portrait of unidentified, mostly African American, men on a street in New Orleans, 1925

Description

Group portrait includes Perry W. Howard (second row, seventh from left). Unidentified men were possibly employees of People's Industrial Life Insurance Company of Louisiana, which was founded by Walter L. Cohen in 1922, or members of the Colored Order of the Knights of Pythias of Louisiana. Inscribed on front: By A. P. Bedou, N. O., La.

Dates

  • Creation: 1925

Creator

Access

Open for research.

Extent

1 photographs : gelatin silver print, toned ; ; print 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 format))

Source of information

Title devised.

Repository Details

Part of the Harvard University Archives Repository

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