Printed by
Unidentified
Subject of
Cotten, Tom
Cotten, Sallie
Cotten, Carrie
Cotten, Mildred
Williams, Loula Cotten, American, died 1927
Cotten, Myrtle
Cotten, Susie
Cotten, Ernest
Elizabeth Estes, American, 1882 - 1969
Date
1902; printed later
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
H x W (sheet): 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
H x W (image): 7 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (19.1 x 23.8 cm)
Caption
Loula Cotten Williams is pictured here with her parents and siblings in Madison County, Tennessee. She would later relocate to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she and her husband, John Wesley Williams, owned and operated the Dreamland Theatre. Located on Greenwood Avenue, the theatre showed live musical and theatrical performances in addition to silent films. It was destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Description
Photocopy of a studio portrait of a family of nine people. All of the people are identified and labeled using black ink. Tom Cotten and Sallie Cotten sit in the middle with their daughters sitting and standing around them. The girls are identified as (left to right): Myrtle (seated), Carrie, Mildred, Loula, Elizabeth, and Susie (seated). A small boy identified as Ernest Cotten sits on a small stool in front of Tom and Sallie. Written below the image is “The Cotten Family 1902.”
Place captured
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
Madison County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
Collection title
W.D. Williams Family Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Classification
Media Arts-Photography
Type
portraits
photocopies
Topic
American South
American West
Families
Photography
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
Object number
2013.79.22
Restrictions & Rights
Public domain
Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd51b8474b6-ef6b-4968-848d-0a95315ab256

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