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[Steven-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Hinkson family group portrait collection]
[graphic].
[1929-ca. 1950]
7 photographs :
gelatin silver ;
22 x 42 cm (8.75 x 16.5 in.) or smaller.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content.
Photographers include Frank W. Harris, G. Marshall Wilson, and the Theresa Studio.
Collection of group portrait photographs, including members of the Hinkson line of the African American middle-class Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning family. Portraits depict a 1929 group portrait photograph of the Christian Street Y.M.C.A. volleyball team, including Dehaven Hinkson; a 1932 portrait photograph of a “Bon Voyage” children’s party for sisters Cordelia Hinkson (Brown) and Mary Hinkson (daughters of Dehaven and Cordelia Chew Hinkson)(P.2015.46.1); a ca. 1950 photograph of a group of several woman, during a dinner party, posed around a large formally-set dining table, including Dorothy Abele Gatling, Mary Venning, Martha Venning Bowie, Agnes Chew Upshur, Cordelia Chew Hinkson, Julia Capps Venning, and Georgine Saunders Chew; ca. 1950 group portraits of members of the men’ organization the Boulé, including Dehaven Hinkson, Richard J. Warwick, and Eugene T. Hinson; and a 1950 Theresa Studio photograph of the men's social club Commissioners of Philadelphia annual June dinner and dance at the Theresa Hotel (Harlem, N.Y.C.) (P.2015.46.7), including William Warrick, Mabel Lawson Warrick, Dehaven Hinkson, Cordelia Chew Hinkson, William G. Upshur, and Agnes Chew Upshur; and a ca. 1955 group portrait of the women’s social group the Geace (P.2015.46.2), possibly during their golden anniversary, including Mary Venning, Martha Venning Bowie, Agnes Chew Upshur, Dorothy Abele Gatling, Mabel Lawson Warrick, and Cordelia Chew Hinkson.
The "Bon Voyage" party was a farewell party before Dehaven Hinkson and his family relocated to Europe for his post-graduate studies. The Geace Club evolved from the women meeting as adolescents as members of the Sunshine Club. The Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, also known as the Boulé, is the first Greek-letter fraternity founded by African Americans in 1904. Members have already received their college and professional degrees at the time of inclusion. Richard J. Warwick and Eugene T. Hinson were founding members. The Commissioners was founded in 1933 by prominent African American Philadelphians as a men's social club "to promote social involvement among members of the community."
Forms part of Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Collection.
See Lib. Company. Annual Report, 1991, p. 26-31.
Gift of descendants Cordelia H. Brown, Lillie V. Dickerson, Mary Hinkson Jackson, and Georgine E. Willis in honor of Phil Lapsansky.
See LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45.
Genealogical charts available at repository.
Several of the sitters of the photographs were identified by the donor. Photocopies with the identified sitters housed at the repository.
Housed with Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning and Chew Families Miscellaneous Portraits Collection [P.2013.14].
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Hinkson family
Portraits.
Venning family
Portraits.
Bowie, Martha Venning,
1899-1979
Portraits
Brown, Cordelia Hinkson,
1922-
Portraits.
Chew, Georgine Saunders,
1874-1963
Portraits.
Hinkson, Cordelia Chew,
1897-1983
Portraits.
Hinkson, DeHaven,
1891-1975
Portraits.
Hinkson, Mary,
1925-2014
Portraits.
Hinson, Eugene Theodore,
1873-1960
Portraits.
Upshur, Agnes Chew,
1896-1984
Portraits
Upshur, William A.,
1894-1963
Portraits.
Venning, Julia Capps
1873-1952
Portraits.
Venning, Mary
1900-1998
Portraits.
Warrick, Mabel Lawson,
1896-1984
Portraits.
Warrick, Richard J.,
1880-1957
Portraits.
Warrick, William,
1894-1985
Portraits.
The Commissioners
Social aspects.
Geace
Social aspects.
Theresa Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
Young Men's Christian Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Sports.
African Americans
Societies and clubs.
African Americans
Social life.
African Americans
Portraits.
African American women
Societies and clubs.
66924
Dinner parties.
lctgm
Farewells
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
lctgm
Volleyball.
lctgm
Gelatin silver prints
1920-1960.
gmgpc
Group portraits
1920-1960.
gmgpc
Portrait photographs
1920-1960.
gmgpc
Women.
82663
SP3
African American History
SP10
Philadelphia artists.
Harris, Frank W.,
1893-1946,
photographer.
Wilson, G. Marshall,
1906-1998,
photographer.
Theresa Studio,
photographer.
Imprint
UNITED STATES.
1929-1950.
Library Company of Philadelphia
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