<I>Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1950
name: label: Photograph by
content: Gordon Parks, American, 1912 - 2006
label: Subject of
content: Pauline Terry, American, born 1912
label: Subject of
content: Bert Collins, American, born 1905
notes: label: Description
content: A black-and-white vintage silver gelatin photograph titled “Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan” by Gordon Parks. The photograph captures wife and husband Pauline Collins (née Terry) and Bert Collins.
label: Description
content: The couple is photographed side-by-side with Bert on the left and Pauline on the right, their arms intertwined on their way to Sunday morning worship service at Macedonian Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. Bert is wearing a dark color suit with a circle-design tie and pens in his proper left suit pocket. He has cigar in his mouth and is wearing dark frame glasses and a boater hat with a black ribbon around the crown. With his proper right hand, Bert is carrying two books, one of them a well-used Bible. Pauline is wearing a dark color dress with light color hem around the sleeves and neckline and light color buttons. She is wearing a small, pleated hat with tulle and circular stud earrings. The photograph was taken on the sidewalk, houses are seen on the right, a road to the left, with trees behind them and people in the back. The photographer signed the back of the photograph in black ink [Gordon Parks].
label: Description
content: Pauline and photographer Parks were both members of the 12-student graduating Class of 1927 at a segregated school called Plaza School in Fort Scott, Kansas. The photograph was part of Parks’ assignment from LIFE magazine.
place: label: Place captured
content: Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Great Migration
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: religious practices
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Worship services
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Carroll Parrott Blue
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.39.38
objectType: label: Type
content: photographs
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Gordon Parks
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on resin-coated paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 9 × 9 1/2 in. (22.9 × 24.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 9 1/2 × 10 in. (24.1 × 25.4 cm)