Woman in a dress seated in a lounge chair. - Digital Collections

Call NumberOSOS_0662
TitleWoman in a dress seated in a lounge chair.
SummaryGertude Matthews with an ornate hairdo, at 31 Moore Street, Williamsburg during the 1940s. Summary derived from inscription on back.
Date[between 1940 and 1949]
Formatstill image
Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, black-and-white
Genreblack-and-white photographs
NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date from donor. Original photograph, [dimensions unknown], digitized on March 3, 2016 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Linda Burke Galloway at Boys and Girls High School. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
Creator[unknown]
SubjectAfrican American women ; Hairstyles
CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.