Photographic print of Harper Franklin, Beatrice Coleman and Beatrice Dedman

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A black-and-white portrait-style photograph of three (3) young women. The young women are wearing light-colored dresses, and each has a corsage pinned to her bodice at upper-left. The woman in the center, Beatrice Cloman, is wearing glasses and is seated. The woman on the left is leaning towards Cloman with her hands behind her back. The woman on the right, Beatrice Dedman, also is leaning towards the center of the photograph with her hands behind her back, touching heads with the other woman. At the bottom of the photograph, the photographer's name, location, and date is printed, partially illegibly [TYLER DERMOTT ARK. 1915]. At bottom, the names of the women are hand-written in ink: [Harper Franklin [[?]]/ Coleman [sic]/ Beatrice Dedman [sic]].

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