Professor Burns (left), an unidentified boy and Elijah Gay use hoes to plant watermelon. Handwritten on bottom border: 426. See ULPA 1982.01.459.p, ULPA 1982.01.489.p and ULPA 1982.01.490.p for other images of these individuals on the same day....
Professor Burns (left), an unidentified boy and Elijah Gay use hoes to plant watermelon. See ULPA 1982.01.426.p, ULPA 1982.01.459.p and ULPA 1982.01.490.p for additional images of these individuals taken on the same day. Handwritten on bottom...
Baseball; Parkway Field (Louisville, Ky.); Contests; Watermelons; African Americans
Watermelon eating contest during baseball game at Parkway Field, Louisville, Kentucky. Six African American boys participate; grandstands filled with people in background. This image depicts African Americans in a stereotyped fashion that may be...
A group of ten women and girls, most wearing hats, eat large slices of watermelon as they sit (one girl stands) on a horse-drawn cart on a dirt road in Morgantown.
A field on a farm in or near Oneida. This may be the field in which Professor Burns and others are planting watermelon in images ULPA 1982.01.426.p and ULPA 1982.01.489.p. Handwritten on bottom border: 427. Title supplied by cataloger.
Elijah Gay removes his hat to pose for a photograph. This picture appears to have been taken on the same day he was planting watermelon with Professor Burns (see images ULPA 1982.01.426.p, ULPA 1982.01.489.p, and ULPA 1982.01.490.p). Handwritten on...
Professor Burns, with a with hoe leaning against his shoulder, poses next to Elijah Gay and an unidentified boy while working on a farm. The boy may be Professor Burns' son, Dugger. See ULPA 1982.01.426.p and ULPA 1982.01.489.p for images of this...
Two African-Americans, one of them a small child, sit on the ground eating watermelon. To the right is a tall fence with more children hanging over the top of it. Title: Some Come to Look but not to Eat.
