Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-shopping, Mobile, Alabama
- Photograph by
- Parks, Gordon, American, 1912 - 2006
- Subject of
- Tanner, Ondria, American
- Thornton, Ondria, American, born 1917
- Date
- 1956
- Medium
- pigment ink on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 14 × 14 in. (35.6 × 35.6 cm)
- H x W (paper): 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
- H x W (mat): 22 × 22 in. (55.9 × 55.9 cm)
- Description
- A color pigment print titled “Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-shopping, Mobile, Alabama” by Gordon Parks. The photograph was taken from behind a display case full of white mannequin children. Looking into the display case is a child, Ondria Tanner, and her grandmother, Ondria Thornton, who has her proper left arm around the younger Ondria. Ondria is wearing an orange dress and her grandmother is wearing a white short-sleeve shirt and a mint green skirt. Behind them is a display case of white mannequin adults.
- On the back of the photograph is the Gordon Parks Foundation copyright and authentication stamp with signature, print date and edition number in pencil.
- Place captured
- Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Topic
- American South
- Clothing and dress
- Families
- Photography
- Segregation
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Carroll Parrott Blue
- Object number
- 2023.39.39
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Estate of Gordon Parks
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.