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Photograph of Gilbert DeLorme, Sr. and associates at Atlanta Life Insurance Co.

ca. 1950

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black and white photograph of Gilbert DeLorme, Sr. Mr. DeLorme is seated at a desk behind a metal piano desk lamp, holding a piece of paper that he reading. DeLorme is wearing dark glasses, a dark tweed suit jacket, a dark patterned tie, white shirt and a white-edged dark handkerchief is in his proper left breast pocket. A man in a light tone suit, white shirt and tortoise shell glasses is sitting to the left of DeLorme. Behind the seated men are three men, left to right they are , Brainard Burch, Henry Lyons and Robert L. Dobbs, in medium toned suits, white collared shirts and dark ties. The room they are in has white walls and there is a framed painting or picture on the wall behind Dobbs and DeLorme. Inscribed in blue ink on the verso. A handwritten note in blue ink on the back identifies the subjects.

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Catalog reference: 2014.94.50

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