[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Portrait of African American women's org. outside of the Phyllis Wheatley Home.

FOSTER, L. L., photographer. National Local Committee of Arrangements of the Chicago and Northern District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. [Chicago], ca 1920s.

9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (visible) silver gelatin photograph partly sealed in a 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. cardstock mat. Verso with ink and pencil inscriptions.

Pictured is a large group of well-dressed Black women posed seated and standing together in front of the Phyllis Wheatley Home in Chicago. A sign affixed above the porch reads, "Phyllis Wheatley Home, Est. 1908." Written in the negative to the lower left and right are the title, photographer, and identities of officers of the organization represented in the image, including Carrie S. Horton and Sadie L. Adams, President and Chairman of the Chicago and Northern District Federation, and Mrs. Hallie Q. Brown, National President.

The Phyllis Wheatley Home was founded in 1908 and incorporated in 1915 by a group of progressive Black women, led by Elizabeth Lindsay Davis (1855-1944). It was purposed house and educate Black women and girls who either traveled to the city as part of the Great Migration or did not have stable housing.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.