paper, adhesive, silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions:
H x W (2015.272.18a image): 7 1/16 × 8 3/4 in. (17.9 × 22.3 cm)
H x W (2015.272.18a sheet): 7 9/16 × 9 5/16 in. (19.2 × 23.7 cm)
H x W (page 18): 8 7/16 × 10 13/16 in. (21.5 × 27.5 cm)
Type:
gelatin silver prints
portraits
photograph albums
Place depicted:
Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Date:
April 29, 1943
Description:
Page 19 of a photograph album (2015.272) owned by Lewis Curtis Smith. The black colored paper page has one black and white photograph (2015.272.18a) adhered to it. The photograph depicts the nineteen members of the Tuskegee Airmen class SE-43-D. The men are in two rows. The front row of men are kneeling or squatting down in front of the back row. All of the men are wearing training uniforms, aviator helmets and goggles. The last name of every person is handwritten next to them in black ink. In the front row from left to right are Heber C. Houston, James E. Brothers, Arnold W. Cisco, Paul Adams, William J. Faulkner, Freddie E. Hutchins, Wilson V. Eagleson and Sidney J. Moseley. Standing in the back row from left to right are Ulysses S. Taylor, Harold E. Sawyer, Luke J. Weathers, Lewis C. Smith, Leonard M. Jackson, Curtis C. Robinson, Vernon V. Haywood, James Y. Carter, Walter T Foreman, Charles P. Bailey and Charles I. Williams. Also handwritten in black ink at the bottom of the photograph is: [Class SE 43-D].
