Title

Photograph portrait of Samuel Grant, before 1926. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Samuel Grant, Mae Reeves' father, stands to the left of an empty leather high back chair and wears a dark suit and bowler hat. His right arm rests on the top of the chair. Mae Reeves (1912-2016) was a pioneering African-American milliner who was famous for her custom-made hats. Her business, Mae's Millinery Shop in downtown Philadelphia, was one of the first shops in the city to be owned by a woman of African American heritage.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21A73_050

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

82,9Mb (3,8Mb) / 15,2in x 21,2in / 4562 x 6355 (300dpi)

Keywords

people black male man men hat education country guy clothes museum dress location century bowler hat clothing African American twenties African-American B&W full length afro-american full-length United States of America Smithsonian Institution black & white black and white B W 1920s Educational Institution 20th century heritage American America USA scientific institution photograph portrait united states Unknown Reeves Ink on paper cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC portraits photographs Mae Reeves Mae