Photocopy of a portrait of the Cotten family
date: label: Date
content: 1902; printed later
name: label: Printed by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Tom Cotten
label: Subject of
content: Sallie Cotten
label: Subject of
content: Carrie Cotten
label: Subject of
content: Mildred Cotten
label: Subject of
content: Loula Cotten Williams, American, died 1927
label: Subject of
content: Myrtle Cotten
label: Subject of
content: Susie Cotten
label: Subject of
content: Ernest Cotten
label: Subject of
content: Elizabeth Estes, American, 1882 - 1969
notes: label: Caption
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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: label: Place captured
content: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
label: Place captured
content: Madison County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: American West
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Photography
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: W.D. Williams Family Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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 Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.79.22
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Type
content: photocopies
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 7 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (19.1 x 23.8 cm)