Description:
Silver prints (24); Each 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches; Some with "Nu Way Photo Shoppe" stamp verso, one with Hicks Photo Studio embossed credit stamp, some with subject identification recto or verso.Collection of real photo postcard studio-portraits of the African American community of Miami, Florida in the 1920s-40s.
Eighteen of the photographs are from the "Nu Way Photo Shoppe," a commercial studio located at 939 N.W. 2nd Avenue in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami.The firm was opened by David Jenkins in the early 1940s and catered to a Black clientele. A 1942 issue of "The Crisis" advertises Jenkins' work in Overtown, and notes that many of the photographs illustrating the issue were shot by his firm. Included in the collection are portraits of two young women posed proudly in her graduation uniform, an identified soldier alongside his sister, dapper men in pinstripe suits, two-tone shoes and panama hats, and equally sharp-dressed women.
There are six other photographs from other Miami-area studios. One,… Read More
