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Softness Was Always Ours

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
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

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