Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Wedding portrait of Lollaretta Pemberton and Grover Allen
1939
Smithsonian NMAAHC collection
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
Black-and-white portrait photograph of bride Lollaretta Pemberton in her wedding dress and her groom Grover Allen in a white suit, with dark tie, lapel pin and pocket square standing in front of a painted back drop. The ivory colored lace and tulle wedding dress has short puffed sleeves, a bodice with center ruching, and alternating narrow panels of lace and tulle, running vertically up the skirt throughout the bodice. There is a silk headpiece shaped to a point with wire. A long tulle and lace veil attaches to the headpiece and trails on the floor. She wears long white gloves to the elbow.
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Catalog reference: 2012.30.2
