DimensionsSheet: 8 1/8 × 8 1/4 in. (20.6 × 21 cm)
Image: 6 1/2 × 7 5/8 in. (16.5 × 19.4 cm)
Image: 6 1/2 × 7 5/8 in. (16.5 × 19.4 cm)
Accession Number 2021.113
Classificationsphotograph
Inscriptions(WX1) WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 -- NEGRO DEBS DANCE AT THE WILLARD -- Negro school girls in traditional white gowns, with escorts wearing white ties, dance last night in the crystal ballroom of the Willard hotel, a capital landmark often called "the residence of the presidents." Fourteen Negro girls made their debut at the party. In four ground are, left to right, Jean Walburg and Erskine Taylor; Lorraine Maples with Jules Lucas, and Barbara Johnson, whose partner is Clarence Simpson, son of the Liberian ambassador. (AP Wirephoto)(ee30940post) 1954 (See Wire Story) [verso u,c typewritten in black ink, printed on sheet attached to photograph]
Negroes
D.C. (verso u,c blue pencil)
27 (verso u,r blue ink)
Z or N (verso c,r graphite)
CVL-DC-053 2000 (verso l,l graphite)
3col
Dance
Cres?
8am?
2-15-65 (verso l,r blue ink)
MarksAssociated Press copyright black ink stamp, verso, u,l
DEC 30 1954
FEB 10 1965 P (verso u,r purple ink stamp)
MAG PAGE (verso, repeated four times)
SIZE_________
NAME________
SLU?________
TIME WANTED_____
DATE________ (verso l,r purple ink stamp)
ProvenanceJeff Perry, New York [acquired by 2019]; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2021]
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