Family Photo Album
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Taylor, Mary A.
notes: label: Description
content: Family photograph albums hold the history of generations, preserving the memories of birthdays, holidays, travels, and all general aspects of life. African American Mary Taylor used her 35mm Bell and Howell camera to document her family's life in the black community of Los Angeles, California, during the mid-20th century. She turned a discarded wallpaper sample book into a treasured family heirloom.
label: Description
content: Taylor's family photographs including 19th-century tintypes, turn-of-the-century hand-colored portraits, and albums from the 1950s to the 1970s provide insight into the African American experience in the United States over the past century.
label: Description
content: Wallpaper sample book used by the donor as a photo album. Contains approximately 842 black and white, and color photographs of unidentified people, mostly African-Americans. Most images were taken in and around unidentified residences. Some identified locations include San Francisico, Los Angeles, Disneyland and Marineland. Also includes newspaper clippings, as well as lithographs of flowers cut from a 1958 calendar.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: California
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mary A. Taylor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0103.02
label: accession number
content: 2002.0103
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0103.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photo Album
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 cm x 46 cm x 7 cm; 18 1/8 in x 18 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in