Photograph of Joe Louis and Commander Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Ramitelli, Italy
date: label: Date
content: 1944
name: label: Photograph by
content: James H. O'Neal, American, 1918 - 1983
label: Subject of
content: Joe Louis, American, 1914 - 1981
label: Subject of
content: Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American, 1912 - 2002
label: Subject of
content: 99th Pursuit Squadron, American, 1941 - 1949
notes: label: Description
content: A black-and-white photograph of staff sergeant Joseph Lewis Barrow (heavyweight champion Joe Lewis) and Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., commander of the 332nd Fighing Group, taken during Lewis' visit to the airfield in Ramitelli, Italy, in the fall of 1944. At the center of the photograph, Lewis, at proper left, and Davis, at proper right, stand in front of a tent pitched in the middle of a grassy field. They are holding mugs. Lewis is facing towards Davis, away from the camera, and Davis is partially facing the camera, but looking off-frame to the proper left. Another Tuskegee airman stands behind them, at proper left, smoking a cigarette in his right hand and turned to look behind him. Other men are partially visible at the proper right of the photograph, walking into frame, and in the background inside the tent. The image is slightly blurry.
place: label: Place captured
content: Ramitelli Airfield, Campobasso, Italy, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Military
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Tuskegee Airmen
label: Topic
content: World War II
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: James "Huey" O'Neal Collection of Tuskegee Airmen Photographs
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 O'Neal family in loving memory of James "Huey" O'Neal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.63.3
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Andrea M. O'Neal
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 photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)