Photographic postcard of Senator Henry Hall Falkener
date: label: Date
content: early 20th century
name: label: Photograph by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Henry Hall Falkener, American, 1859 - 1931
notes: label: Caption
content: Henry Hall Falkener, Republican, served as a Senator of North Carolina, 19th district, Littleton, Warren County in the session of 1889. Falkener was also a principal at Percy Street School, the first graded school for African Americans in N.C., built in 1880, as well as one of four charter teachers at what is now NC A&T when it was founded in 1891.
label: Description
content: A sepia toned, postcard portrait of Senator Henry Hall Falkener. He has a mustache and is wearing a dark, pin-striped suit jacket, dark vest, white collared shirt and medium dark tie with a diagonal stripe across the tie. The reverse is white with black printed text and a stamp box printed in black ink: [POST CARD / CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS / PLACE STAMP HERE]. The stamp box is bordered by letters, [AZO], with two triangles pointing up on the top and two triangles pointing down on the bottom of the box. A handwritten note in red ink on the back reads [Senator H.H. Falkener], identifying the subject.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Politics
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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 Margaret Falkener DeLorme, Waldo C. Falkener, Cameron S. Falkener and Gilbert E. DeLorme
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.94.3
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Type
content: postcards
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Card): 5 3/8 × 3 7/16 in. (13.7 × 8.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 4 7/16 × 3 1/16 in. (11.2 × 7.7 cm)