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Does anybody know anything about a ca. 1940s institution in Washington called "Inspiration House"? I am helping to catalog some photographs at the Historical Society of Washington taken by a black photographer, mainly during the late 1940s-early 1950s. Some of the photos, identified as "Inspiration House," show a group of prosperous-looking black ladies (Helen Hokinson-types, for those of us of a certain age) lined up for a group portrait. I found one reference from the Baltimore /Afro-American /mentioning an event there in 1948, but no details. I am also trying to find people who might have known or known about the photographer, a guy named Ed Hubbard (sometimes he went by "Art" Hubbard). Served in the Signal Corps during WWII, came back to Washington, set up briefly, and apparently moderately successfully, as an independent photographer after the war. At some point, he got a job doing photography for the government--first the Dept. of Agriculture, then NIH. Did private work on the side until he retired in 1976. Took beautiful, large format photos, most of them unidentified, of course! Marilyn Harper Matthew Gilmore H-DC list co-editor, web editor dc-edit@mail.h-net.msu.edu http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/ [list website] http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi?list=H-DC [subscribe to H-DC] Remember to check http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=lm&list=H-DC for past list messages.
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