[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Photograph album containing modeling portraits and headshots of African American men and women incl. Trudy Daniels Haynes and Mexican actress Lourdes "Lulu" Guerrero. Ca 1950s-1960s.

Approx. 10 x 12 in. scrapbook album containing 40+ silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from 2 x 2 1/2 in. to 8 x 10 in. mounted (some loose) recto/verso on self-adhesive pages with plastic protectors. Photographs include headshots, pin-up photographs, and other portraits of non-white men and women including: 8 x 10 in. photograph of a young African American model, George Smith Branford, wearing a sweater and holding a wooden racket with both hands. New York, NY: Bruno of Hollywood, n.d. Verso stamp from the Grace Del Marco Agency with model's name, sizes, and hourly rate accomplished in manuscript. -- 8 x 10 in. photocollage of Trudy Daniels. N.p., n.d. Verso stamp from the Grace Del Marco Agency with model's sizes and hourly rate accomplished in manuscript. -- 3 1/2 x 7 in. silver gelatin pin-up photograph of an unidentified African American female model wearing a bodysuit and holding a beach ball. -- 8 x 10 in. photocollage of Lulu Guerrero. N.p., n.d. Verso stamp from the Grace Del Marco Agency with model's name accomplished in manuscript. -- 6 1/2 x 8 in. headshot of Pat Connell, identified in print as a WNJR Staff Announcer. New York, NY: Bruno of Hollywood, n.d. -- and others.

The Grace Del Marco Agency was established by the United States' first African-American model Ophelia DeVore (1921-2014). Though DeVore could "pass" as Caucasian with her light skin, she sought to create a market for non-white women. Her agency gave multiple future stars their start.

Trudy Daniels Haynes (1926-2022) became the nation's first African American TV weather reporter and news reporter, first in Detroit and then in Philadelphia, where she remained for the rest of her career.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Photograph album containing modeling portraits and headshots of African American men and women incl. Trudy Daniels Haynes and Mexican actress Lourdes "Lulu" Guerrero. Ca 1950s-1960s.

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