Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: DAVIS, Griffith J. "Griff"
Event Date: 1949-1958
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.266368

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscriptions]; Verso, stamped in black ink: 666; adhered typed label: Mrs. Cox is member of community organization at the Abraham Lincoln Homes / called TCOP. It sponsors a bizarre [sic] each year to raise money to send boys / to summer camp. Mrs. Cox is field representative of group, contacts New York / stores for donations of merchandise which is auctioned off at bizarre [sic]. Here Mrs. Cox receives handbag donation to her bizarre [sic] from Mr. Arthur L. Manchee, / vice president in charge of operations at MACY’S – “world’s largest department / Store. Son Phillip accompanied her.; stamped in blue ink: [star symbol] / Credit:: / GRIFF DAVIS / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PEOPLE / BLACKS
Retouching: N