My uncle was way ahead of the quarter-zip game.
Lucian J. Henderson, Colored Graded School, mid-1930s.
Quarter-zip … trend?
school picture
Studio shots, no. 195: Thelma Braswell Forbes.
Thelma Braswell Forbes, age about 12, as a student at Lucama School, circa 1949.
Thelma Braswell Forbes, who passed away in Wilson last week, graciously shared with Black Wide-Awake her recollections of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church. May she rest in peace.
Many thanks to Dawn Forbes Murphy for sharing this wonderful photograph.
Studio shots, no. 21: the children.
Childhood photographs of the family and friends of Hattie Henderson Ricks. All grew up in East Wilson.
Hattie Mae Henderson Ricks (1910-2001), circa 1925.
Unknown teen, ca. 1920s.
Bessie Henderson Smith (1917-1996) and Alice Henderson Mabin (1920-2017), with their father Jesse “Jack” Henderson, circa 1930.
Annie Marian Gay Hawkins Barnes (1925-1981), ca. 1930.
Lucian J. Henderson (1926-2003), ca. 1933.
Cecilia Mae Jones Krider Williams (1927-2014), ca. early 1940s.
Ruby Lee Jones (1929-??), mid-1940s.
Jesse A. Henderson (1929-2005), ca. 1937.
Brothers Johnnie W. and Charles Jones. (Cecilia and Ruby were their sisters.)
Rederick C. Henderson (b. 1934), ca. 1941.
Hattie Margaret Henderson Ellis (b. 1936), ca. 1939. (The hand belonged to Annie Marian Gay.)
Photographs now in the possession of Lisa Y. Henderson.