Photograph album of African American women posing in a department store

This album features sixty photographs of young African American women posing with department store displays and working in the store’s offices.

The photographs in this album were taken between December 1969 and September 1970 and show a small group of African American women posing amongst home interior displays. The women lounge on furniture and interact with various household goods, including tableware, throw pillows, clocks, and lighting fixtures. The displays feature the highly saturated colors, geometric shapes and lines, and bold patterns characteristic of interior design of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shots are relaxed and informal, suggesting the photographs were taken by a co-worker and were not for public display or advertisements. Several photographs show the women working at desks in the store’s offices. The store is not identified, but it was possibly a Shoppers Fair department store.

The album has bold, pictorial floral covers and is internally bound with steel rings. It contains ten mylar-covered leaves, with sixty color photographs inserted into the first ten pages. The photos measure 3 ½” x 3 ½”. Many of the photos are slightly overexposed.