by Hannah Grantham | Nov 8, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Texas, Uncategorized
Albumen photographic print mounted onto a cabinet card created at W.J. Cassaday’s photography studio in Waco, Texas. This is a story of Franklin C. Wilkerson (1897-1964) of Waco, Texas. What follows is an attempt to give a name to a boy found in the archive and...
by Jamie Clifford | Nov 8, 2023 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Texas
Recto: a photograph of a baby — chubby limbs not quite still for his portrait, gaze curious but unfocused — nestled in a fur rug atop a rattan chair. Verso: “Cecil Allen” scrawled in pencil. Beneath it, possibly written in a different hand: “Dead.” Who was Cecil...