Gwendolyn Yvonne Cooper
Item
- Source
- Ann N. Cooper Collection
- Creator
- Griffith J. Davis
- Title
- Gwendolyn Yvonne Cooper
- Date
- 1943
- Description
- Photograph of Gwendolyn Yvonne Cooper walking along a residential path, 1943. Cooper wears a tailored jacket and pleated skirt typical of early-1940s fashion. The neatly maintained garden, tree with birdhouse, and quiet neighborhood homes evoke a sense of everyday life and domestic calm during the wartime era. The image captures a moment of youthful confidence and ordinary beauty within a mid-20th-century Black residential landscape.
- Type
- Still image
- Subject
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African American women
Women—Portraits
Residential neighborhoods
Everyday life
1940s fashion - Format
- 8 × 10 inch black-and-white photographic print.
- Rights
- This image is made available for research and educational use. Reproduction or publication requires permission from the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History.
- Rights Holder
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Fulton County Library System
- Item sets
- Resilience In The Everyday

