Object Details
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of an Atlanta Life Insurance party. Lucia Bacote standing on the far left, is wearing a halter top dress with a leaf pattern over dark fabric. To her right is Evelyn Thomas wearing a white, lace, shawl style collar dress with a silk flower belt. Helen Martin is wearing a dark shawl style collar dress and dark gloves. Eugene Martin is wearing a black tuxedo with a white collared shirt and dark bow tie. Grace DeLorme is wearing a white, strapless dress and a white shawl. Gilbert DeLorme, Sr., standing on the far right, is wearing a dark, double breasted suit, dark tie, white handkerchief in his proper left breast pocket, and wire rimmed glasses. They are standing in front of a white door and brick wall. A handwritten note on the back in blue ink identifies the subjects and event.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Alexander L. Adams, American, 1916 - 1993
- Subject of
- Lucia Moore Bacote, American, 1907 - 2012
- Evelyn Thomas, American
- Helen White Martin, American, 1899 - 1984
- Eugene Marcus Martin, American, 1888 - 1969
- Grace McKinley Holmes DeLorme, American, 1906 - 1997
- Gilbert E. DeLorme Sr., American, 1903 - 1975
- Date
- ca. 1950
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Margaret Falkener DeLorme, Waldo C. Falkener, Cameron S. Falkener and Gilbert E. DeLorme
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Sheet): 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.6 × 25.4 cm)
- H x W (Image): 7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in. (19 × 23.9 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
