1920ca AFRICAN AMERICAN young man child on knee Clark studio Indianapolis

Description

CABINET PHOTOGRAPH OF A YOUNGER AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN DRESSED IN SUIT AND TIE SITTING IN A CHAIR HOLDING A YOUNG CHILD ON HIS KNEE, ca. 1900
, black-and-white, 5-1/2” x 4”, on cabinet card board with Clark, 130 E. Wash. St., Indianapolis blindstamped below the photo, individuals unnamed
/// PROVENANCE:
from a large group of late 19th to mid 20th century photographs of African Americans from the Midwest and Boston, some of which were authenticated to be photos of Sydonia Byrd and relatives, friends, and classmates of hers…Sydonia was a one-time romantic interest of the HarlemRenaissance poet Countee Cullen…they met when he was at Harvard and she was at the Boston Conservatory following her study of music at Oberlin…she came from a well-to-do African American family in Indianapolis, her father owned a barbershop
/// CONDITION:
photograph near fine with negligible wear, some light smudges on wide cabinet board border.