A group of four or five young African-American couples, well dressed for the sporting life, enjoying the outdoors, as recorded in a series of 14 photographs (eleven 2 ¾ x 4 ½ inches, three 3 ½ x 5 ¾), picturing the couples riding or sitting on bicycles (3), horses (2), or a large roadster (1), or posing or horsing around (8); the photos picture Chrystallee Maxwell and friends, identified by Maxwell on versos of four of the images
Accompanied by Maxwell’s membership card to the Kansas City YWCA (1931), to invitations to historically Black fraternal events in Kansas City (1936 & 1938) and a card of effusive thanks to Maxwell for her help in organizing a theater event in Portland (1934). Traces of mounting on versos, but a...... More