Box 1

Color print. Depicts Idele Patton sitting on a wooden wagon, driving wooden horses. A group of elders stands on the ground next to her. A Handwritten note states that the picture was taken in Belle Plain, Minn.

Color print. Depicts two women sitting together in a restaurant booth.

Cream-colored invitation with gold-colored lettering. The inside reads as follows:

Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Jackson cordially invite you to a Reception in honour of their Golden Wedding Anniversary given by their daughter Ventress Jackson Roberson on Saturday, the twenty-ninth of December Nineteen hundred and seventy-three from three until six o'clock in the Fellowship Hall of Pilgrim Baptist Church 732 West Central Avenue. St. Paul, Minnesota.

Discolored napkin with gold-colored lettering in one corner reads as follows:

We thank God for our 50th Anniversary. Dewey and Lela. 1923-1973.

Color prints. Depict elders eating in a cafeteria, seated at long tables.

Color print. Depicting elders seated at tables in a dining hall.

Poem is printed in black ink on pink paper. The author is unknown. One verse from the poem reads as follows:

Faith of our Mothers, living yet/ In cradle song and bedtime prayer,/ In nursery love and fireside love/ Thy presence still prevades the air: Faith of our Mothers, living faith/ We will be true to thee till death.

Color Print.

Color Print. A body of water is seen through the windows behind them.

Black and white print. Depicts a women standing in tall grass at the shore of a lake, holding a fishing pole.