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Box 1

 Container

Contains 184 Results:

"Mrs. Bradley Working the Puppet", 1951

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 017.01.03.1c
Scope and Contents

Black and white print. Depicts four elders sitting outside, near an agricultural field. One of the elders, a man, holds a hand puppet while the others look on.

Dates: 1951

"Hay Ride" [No.2], June 1962

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 017.01.03.1d
Scope and Contents

Black and white print. Depicts a group of people sitting in the bed of a tractor-trailer on a farm.

Dates: June 1962

Piano player at HQB, circa 1970

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 017.01.03.1e
Scope and Contents

Color print. Depicts seniors in Clubroom C at HQB, gathered at several folding tables. Beside the tables is a woman sitting at a piano bench, playing on a baby-grand piano.

Dates: circa 1970

"Hay Ride" [No.3], August 1964

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 017.01.03.1f
Scope and Contents

Color print.

Dates: August 1964

Pearl Smith and friend, August 1962

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 017.01.03.1g
Scope and Contents

Color print.

Dates: August 1962

"Golden Age Bazaar in a Garden", 1950

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 017.01.04.2a
Scope and Contents

Black and white print. Depicts two elder women sitting in covered benches. Beside them, another woman is crouching low to the ground, besides a small, picket fence.

Dates: 1950

"Circus Clown", circa 1975

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 017.01.04.2b
Scope and Contents

Color print. Depicts a person in a halter top and a short skirt walking in a dark area. The person is wearing bright-white clown makeup.

Dates: circa 1975

"At the Circus Golden Agers", circa 1975

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 017.01.04.2c
Scope and Contents

Color print. Depict the golden agers sitting in folding chairs, watching circus performers. One of the performers, a clown, has walked into the audience and kisses one of the seniors on the cheek.

Dates: circa 1975

"I An't Dead Yet", a poem, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 017.01.04.2d
Scope and Contents Poem, printed on paper in black in, reads as follows: I Ain't Dead Yet My Hair is white and I'm almost blind/ The days of my youth are far behind/ My neck so stiff, can't turn my head/ Can't hear half that's being said. My legs are so wobbly, can hardly walk/ But glory be, I can surely talk. And this is the message I want you to get; I'm still a-kicking' and/ I ain't dead yet. My joints are so stiff, won't move in their sockets/ And vary a dime is left in my...
Dates: undated

"They Ain't Dead Yet", circa 1970

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 017.01.05.1a
Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping reads as follows: 'They Ain't Dead Yet' set the theme for the Golden Agers of Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, 553 Aurora Ave., last week at a program observing Negro History Week. Ethlwyn Bailey, left, 554 Central Ave., gave a sprightly rendition of the title poem, "I Ain't Dead Yet," and Mrs. Virginia Greene, 421 Dayton Ave., right, performed a reading on Paul Lawrence Dunbar to a rapt audience. Besides craft exhibits, the program included the...
Dates: circa 1970