Digital Snapshots

Dublin Core

Title

"Small Talk."

Series

27

Item

711

Identifier

158189-photo-0711-1

Archival Description

"Small Talk." Authentic original, matte print displayed in "Eudora Welty," Lugene, Inc. Opticians exhibition (1936). Recto - "'Small Talk' - Utica, Miss."; title on the front written in other than Eudora Welty's hand.

Detailed Description

From the Eudora Welty Digital Archives Photographs Collection - MDAH. Black-and-white photograph of two Black men talking, they are looking at each other but their bodies are pointed towards the camera. The man on the left wears a light-colored button-down and dark jacket with a dark trilby, his right hand is raised. The man on the right is wearing a patterned sweater with a hole at mid-abdomen, over a dark collared shirt, a dark jacket, and a dark fedora, while his hands are in his pants front pockets. There is a boy behind them carrying a bag over his shoulder, and a building and tree line in the far background. The bottom right corner reads "'Small Talk' - Utica, Miss."

Creator

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

Date

Undated

Location

Utica, Mississippi

Rights

Copyright © Eudora Welty, LLC; Courtesy Eudora Welty Collection – Mississippi Department of Archives and History
(Permission to publish required).