Ruth Earp’s Kodak Book, Photograph Album with African American Interactions

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New York, 1920

Album showing the outdoor adventures of Ms. Ruth Earp and her friends, including camping, shooting, caving, boating, eating, and climbing trees. Of special interest are a few African American images—including one with an African American boy holding the hand of a white woman, presumably Ms. Earp, and others with an African American man cooking and carrying a woman across a creek.

Small album has a Native American image on front and measures about 5 1/4" x 8 1/4. With approximately 67 glued-on images, ca 1920s. Some loose pages, Boston sales seal on rear endpaper. Likely the Ruth Earp (Douglass) who became a physician, born in 1903 and receiving her medical degree from Cornell in 1928.  She did medical missionary work in China and then practiced in Bernardsville, NJ.