Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 469

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WOMEN'S HISTORY--PROFESSIONAL.) Hooks Brothers, photographers. Photograph of typing students at a Memphis business school. Photograph, 5 x 7 inches, on larger card mount with faint embossed photographer's stamp; ½-inch closed tear to image, 1-inch light crease to mount. Memphis, TN, circa 1930s
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This photograph is uncaptioned, but may show students at the Henderson Business College, which opened a campus in Memphis in 1916. The founder George W. Henderson was described in the Memphis Commercial Appeal on 28 May 1916 as "the speediest Negro typist in the world." The photograph was by the Hooks Brothers studio, the city's leading Black photographers, who were in operation from 1906 through the 1970s.