Photographic print of Ellen Love Scurlock with a poem on the back

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.

A black and white photograph of Ellen Love Scurlock in Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C. She is featured posing against a stone stairway in the park. There is an inscription on the front in the lower right side that reads: [I love you, Ellen]. The back of the photograph has a poem titled: "Five Snapshots" written by hand, in ink by Ellen Love Scurlock.

Catalog date

early 1940s

Recorded places

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Correspondence; Families; Local and regional; Military; Photography; Poetry; Tuskegee Airmen

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